I need some information about King Tut, any historians out there??? Was King tut in the New Kingdom era?

Question

My main question is was king tut in the New Kingdom era, and if not, then which era was he in, appreciate your answer, please give me a lot of information

Answer 1

Yep. The New Kingdom is known for it's building and power! The New Kindgom also made the best art. King Tut even has a big alabaster sculpture of him and his wife at the Luxor Temple. (You probably won't find that in many books. The only reason I know is because I went there and saw it! It's bigger than life size, but the noses have been smashed off.) He was in the 18th Dynasty and was in charge when there was a return to polytheism. His wife was Ankhesenamun. When they were both children, they had "Aten" in their names because Aten was considered the supreme God (it was monotheism). However, there was a lot of politics tied up with religion, and after Akhenaten died, the capital was moved, and Tutankhamun, who was just a little boy when he was made pharaoh, had to have his name changed to included the God "Amun." (The priests of Amun were very mad when their way of worshiping God wasn't popular.) Anyway, Tut only ruled for a short period, and most of the work was done by his assistants and viziers. He's a pretty insignificant ruler, but he's special because his tomb was found nearly intact during the early 20th century by Howard Carter.

I got to see the Tut exhibit in Cairo this summer, and the art and artifacts were beautiful. Did you know that his famous death mask probably wasn't his originally? I looked up inside of it, and the face part was clearly added in separately! (There are theories that because he died so young that almost all of his burial provisions were meant for someone else! Even his coffin shows evidence that it was for a woman instead of a man because of the wing patterns!)

Answer 2

King Tutankhamun did indeed reigned from 1333 BC – 1324 BC in the New Kingdom.

Here are some sites that should help you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun
http://www.crystalinks.com/tut.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~ancient/tut1.htm

Tutankhaten(his name was later changed to Tutankhamen)became King at the age of 8 or 9, depending on which expert you are speaking to. He then married his slightly older half sister, Ankhesenpaaten (her name was later changed to Ankhesenamun) and by all accounts was very much in love with her. In fact there is a lamp that when lit shows a very intimate loving scene of Tutankhamen and Ankhesenamun. The outer part of the lamp has heiroglyphics and one of their gods. The inner scene can only be seen when the Alabaster lamp is lit. How the special effect was done is still a mystery to scientist even to this day. The practice of marrying close relatives or what we would call incest was done by royalty quite frequently in order to keep bloodlines pure, as well as succession. Pharaoh's were thought to be living God's. It is thought that Tutankhamun may have had some type of deformity, probably due in part to inner breeding practices of the time. It is a widely held belief that King Tutankamen was murdered. At any rate he died at the age of 18 under suspicious circumstances in the very least. He left no living heirs. His Queen was pursued by a foriegn King, a Hittite king. Ay did not want this and tried to married her himself, by force or otherwise we will never know.

Ay who was a priest became Pharaoh after Tutankamen's death when he married his (possible granddaughter) Queen Ankhesenamun.

Because Tut was so young when he became King, he was most probably just a figure head. It is thought that Ay was most likely the person that made the decisions for him and when Tut came of age and started to make decisions for himself, those people that had been in control did not appreciate the control being taken from them. This has led to the murder theory as well as the damage that was found when Tut's skull was x-rayed. It appeared that Tut had lived long enough for the fracture to begin to heal but it is doubtful if he ever regained conciousness. There are, however, other things that could have caused such an injury, one example would be a fall from a chariot but this is doubtful. It is thought that Tutankhamen had two children that were stillborn to the union of he and his wife as two fetues were found in the tomb. If I am not mistaken I believe those fetues appeared to have had birth defects that would not have allowed them to live outside of the womb.

Tutankhamen is best known for having restored the "Old Religion". His predesecers, Akhenaten and Smenkhkare, had put a religion of Atenism, or One God, into place. When Tutankhamen restored the old ways, he became very popular.

Hope this helps.
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Answer 3

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