The students of BDM International have made a presentation scanning king Tut's life and after life.

1. SEARCH BEGINS

2. MUMMY OVERVIEW
• A mummy is a body, human or animal, whose skin and organs have been
preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals,
extreme cold (ice mummies), very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies
are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if
kept in cool and dry conditions. Some authorities restrict the use of the
term to bodies deliberately embalmed with chemicals, but the use of the
word to cover accidentally desiccated bodies goes back at least to the
1730s.
• Mummies of humans and other animals have been found all around the
world, both as a result of natural preservation through unusual conditions,
and as cultural artifacts. Over one million animal mummies have been
found in Egypt, many of which are cats. The oldest known naturally
mummified human corpse is a severed head dated as 6,000 years old,
found in 1936 at the site named Inca Cueva No. 4 in South America.

3. CASE STUDY-KING TUT
1. Who was king Tut ?
2. Life
3. Tomb & its’ Discovery
4. Different ruling policies
5. Death
6. Curse
7. Significance of his period
8. Search on progress

4. Tutankhamun
KING TUT
THE EGYPTIAN PHARAOH
EGYPTIAN PHAROAH
Pharaoh of Egypt
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Reign ca. 1332–1323 BC,18th Dynasty
Predecessor Smenkhkare
Tutankhamun was an Egyptianpharaoh of
the 18th dynasty (ruled ca. 1332 BC – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology),
Consort(s) Ankhesenamun
during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. He is
Children Two stillborn daughters
popularly referred to as King Tut. His original name, Tutankhaten, means
"Living Image of Aten", while Tutankhamun means "Living Image of Amun". In
Father Akhenaten
hieroglyphs, the name Tutankhamun was typically written Amen-tut-ankh,
Mother "The Younger LadY"
because of a scribal custom that placed a divine name at the beginning of a
Born ca. 1341 BC
phrase to show appropriate reverence.He is possibly also the Nibhurrereya of
Died ca. 1323 BC (aged 18)
the Amarna letters, and likely the 18th dynasty king Rathotis who, according
Burial KV62
to Manetho, an ancient historian, had reigned for nine years—a figure that

5. LIFE
• Tutankhamun was the son of Akhenaten (formerly
Amenhotep IV) and one of Akhenaten's sisters. As a prince he
was known as Tutankhaten. He ascended to the throne in
1333 BC, at the age of nine or ten, taking the throne name of
Tutankhamun. His wet-nurse was a woman called Maia,
known from her tomb at Saqqara
• When he became king, he married his half-sister,
Ankhesenpaaten, who later changed her name
to Ankhesenamun. They had two daughters, both
stillborn. Computed tomography studies released in 2011
revealed that one daughter died at 5–6 months of pregnancy
and the other at 9 months of pregnancy. No evidence was
found in either mummy of congenital anomalies or an
apparent cause of death.

6. DIFFERENT POLICIES
Domestic policy
In his third regnal year, Tutankhamun reversed several changes made during his
father's reign. He ended the worship of the god Aten and restored the god Amun to
supremacy. The ban on the cult of Amun was lifted and traditional privileges were
restored to its priesthood. The capital was moved back to Thebes and the city of
Akhetaten abandoned.This is also when he changed his name to Tutankhamun.
As part of his restoration, the king initiated building projects, in particular at Thebes
and Karnak, where he dedicated a temple to Amun. Many monuments were
erected, and an inscription on his tomb door declares the king had "spent his life in
fashioning the images of the gods". The traditional festivals were now celebrated
again, including those related to the Apis Bull, Horemakhet, and Opet. His
restoration stela says:
The temples of the gods and goddesses ... were in ruins. Their shrines were deserted
and overgrown. Their sanctuaries were as non-existent and their courts were used
as roads ... the gods turned their backs upon this land ... If anyone made a prayer to
a god for advice he would never respond

7. TOMB AND ITS DISCOVERY
• Tutankhamun was buried in a tomb that was small relative to his status. His death
may have occurred unexpectedly, before the completion of a grander royal tomb,
so that his mummy was buried in a tomb intended for someone else. This would
preserve the observance of the customary seventy days between death and burial. [
• Tutankhamun seems to have faded from public consciousness in Ancient Egypt
within a short time after his death, and remained virtually unknown until the
1920s. His tomb was robbed at least twice in antiquity, but based on the items
taken (including perishable oils and perfumes) and the evidence of restoration of
the tomb after the intrusions, it seems clear that these robberies took place within
several months at most of the initial burial. Eventually the location of the tomb
was lost because it had come to be buried by stone chips from subsequent tombs,
either dumped there or washed there by floods. In the years that followed, some
huts for workers were built over the tomb entrance, clearly not knowing what lay
beneath.

8. DEATH
• There are no surviving records of Tutankhamun's final
days. What caused Tutankhamun's death has been the
subject of considerable debate. Major studies have
been conducted in an effort to establish the cause of
death.
• Although there is some speculation that Tutankhamun
was assassinated, the consensus is that his death was
accidental. A CT scan taken in 2005 shows that he had
badly broken his leg shortly before his death, and that
the leg had become infected. DNA analysis conducted
in 2010 showed the presence of malaria in his system.
It is believed that these two conditions (malaria and
leiomyomata) combined, led to his death.

9. CURSE
• For many years, rumors of a "Curse of the
Pharaohs" (probably fueled by newspapers seeking
sales at the time of the discovery) persisted,
emphasizing the early death of some of those who
had first entered the tomb. However, a recent
study of journals and death records indicates no
statistical difference between the age of death of
those who entered the tomb and those on the
expedition who did not.

10. SIGNIFICANCE
• As Tutankhamun began his reign at such an early age, his
vizier, and eventual successor Ay, was probably making most
of the important political decisions during Tutankhamun's
reign.
• Tutankhamun was one of the few kings worshiped as a god
and honored with a cult-like following during his lifetime. A
stela discovered at Karnak and dedicated to Amun-Re and
Tutankhamun indicates that the king could be appealed to in
his deified state for forgiveness and to free the petitioner
from an ailment caused by wrongdoing. Temples of his cult
were built as far away as in Kaa and Faas in Nubia. The title of
the sister of the Viceroy of Kush included a reference to the
deified king, indicative of the universality of his cult.

11. Sunday, November 26.
‘Open second doorway - about 2pm - Advised Engelbach
After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the
afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact
replica of the first. It bore similar seal impressions and had similar traces of
successive reopenings and reclosings in the plastering. The seal impressions were of
Tut.ankh.Amen and of the Royal Necropolis, but not in any way so clear as those on
the first doorway. . .
Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the
passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.
In which, after making preliminary notes, we made a tiny breach in the top left hand
corner to see what was beyond. Darkness and the iron testing rod told us that there
was empty space. Perhaps another descending staircase, in accordance to the
ordinary royal Theban tomb plan? Or may be a chamber? Candles were procured -
the all important tell-tale for foul gases when opening an ancient subterranean
excavation - I widened the breach and by means of the candle looked in, while Ld.
C., Lady E, and Callender with the Reises waited in anxious expectation.

12. SPEAKERS:
MAYUKH NANDY
RITWIK PANJA
ARITRA KR. GON
ARKA PRAMANIK
INFORMATION COLLECTORS:
INDRANIL
RAKTIM
ROHAN
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION :
ADITYA PAKHIRA
AVIK BOSE
ARABINDA BOSE

13. Conclusion

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