King tut's name was erased from the list of pharoahs and his family has been killed. Give 3 reasons how & why?

Answer 1

I do not believer that is entirely true. Hetshupsut's history was attempted to be erased.

Answer 2

All the Pharaohs who worshipped the Aten or were members of that family were erased from the King Lists at Abydos and Karnak. That includes Amonhotep IV who bacame Akenaten, Smenkhkare, Tutankaten who became Tutankhamon, and Aye. The lists simply go from Amonhotep III (father of Akhenaten) to Horemheb, a general who married Nefertiti's sister, Mutnodjme. Horemheb followed Aye to the throne as the last pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

The rise of the Atenist religion and the banishment of the other hundreds of gods by Akhenaten shook Egypt to its very foundations. This was more than closing a few temples. Akhenaten closed them all! The temples were economic centers: they provided jobs to the population, education to scribes, healing to the sick, and provided the essential spiritual need of connecting the people to the gods and thus assuring that things go along as they should. This concept was called Ma'at. Quite simply, the goddess symbolized Divine Right Order. This was a central concept of Egyptian civilization.

Pharaoh was a god on earth in Egyptian religious beliefs. Since the Old Kingdom, the king's titles included among others, "Son of the Sun," "Mighty Bull of Ma'at," and a Horus name; these all connected the king to the pantheon of gods. The pharaoh's function religiously as king was to be a link between the Egyptian people and the gods, so that Ma'at was preserved. This meant that the Nile, also considered a god called Hapi, would flood to the exact level needed to provide a bountiful harvest, the people would be healthy and the country powerful and prosperous.

Because Akhenaten disbanded the temples and destoyed the idols, he destroyed Ma'at instead of preserving it. He even moved the capital of the country from Thebes to Aketaten, and built the new city in the desert. That provides a motive for murdering him, but since his mummy has never been discovered, there is no evidence that was the case. He also could have died of natural causes. We simply don't know.

The same thing goes for Smenkhkare, whose mummy also has never been positively identified. And also Akhenaten's Chief Wife (i.e., queen), Nefertiti, who may or may not have also ruled briefly. They all could have died from a lack of penicillin.

Earlier this year, Dr. Zahi Hawass announced that after recent examination, the mummy of Tutankhamon showed that the cause of death was an infected broken leg. So he was not murdered. Another lack of penicillin.

Aye was an old man when he ascended the throne, so he likely died of the effects of old age. I don't believe any of them were murdered.

When Tutankhaten ascended the throne, he changed his name to TutankhAMON to show his allegiance to the Egyptian king of the gods, Amon. He moved the capital back to Thebes, and reopened the old temples and reestablished the old gods. Aye and Horemheb continued that work. However, once Horemheb was on the throne, he took steps to erase Akenaten, Nefertiti, Smenkhkare, Tutankhamon and Aye from all memory.

So the major overwhelming motive for getting rid of any of them would be to restore the old religious order, to restore Ma'at. Another motive would be ambition. Another reason would be resentment over the economic collapse that the Aten revolution caused.

Ironically, the erasure helped preserve the tomb of Tutankhamon from robbers because in one sense he had ceased to exist. In the Twentieth Century, Egyptologist Howard Carter found grave goods in the Valley of the Kings with the name Nebkheperure Tutankhamon and was intrigued enough to begin his search for this pharaoh's lost tomb. That search was rewarded beyond belief in November 1922 with the discovery of King Tut's tomb. The rest, of course, was history.

Answer 3

Because his elder brother was Ahnkenaten, who tried to change the egyptian religion in favor of a monotheistic religion with the sun god as the only god. How? He was murdered by his prime minister Ay. He took over as Pharaoh and tried to erase the family of the heretic.

Answer 4

Actually, Ahnkenaten was his father-in-law. I don't think he has actually been removed from the list of Pharoahs. There is a lot of speculation as to who killed him and his family, but I don't think it has ever been proven who really did it.

Answer 5

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