^^^^^ if not what egyptian kings did?
2007-09-23 05:28:03 · 8 answers · asked by Ave 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Khufu... the Great Pyramid itself.
2007-09-23 05:37:31 · answer #1 · answered by Sinclair 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
King Tut did not have a pyramid - he was instead buried in a tomb, located in the famous Valley of the Kings, not far from Thebes. Since Tut died when he was only eighteen years old, there was never time for the construction of a pyramid. Due to that, his secluded tomb was neither as large nor as grand as would have been typical of a deceased Pharaoh. Tutankhamen's grave was robbed at least two times, although no items of any substantial value were stolen. In fact, both of the intrusions probably took place within a few months of burial, as the site was restored by the Egyptians not long after they occurred.
2016-05-17 04:25:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Tutankhamun did not have his own pyramid. He was buried in the Valley of the Kings, as were the majority of the kings of the New Kingdom. The Valley is located near a mountain that does bear a resemblance to a pyramid and this may have served as a symbolic pyramid for all those buried in the Valley of the Kings.
Pyramids were the tombs of the majority of the kings of the Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom. The first pyramid was built for King Djoser Netjerykhet - this was the Step Pyramid of Saqqara built in the 3rd Dynasty. The first true (not stepped) pyramid was built for Sneferu, the first king of the 4th Dynasty. Pyramid construction for kings and some of their closest companions (primarily their wives) continued throughout the rest of the Old Kingdom. The majority of the kings of the Middle Kingdom also had pyramid tombs. The last royal pyramid constructed in Egypt was built for Ahmose I, the 1st king of the New Kingdom.
Pyramids continued to be used as tombs or as elements of tombs in Egypt after the early New Kingdom, but were used by private individuals, rather than royalty and were much smaller than the earlier royal pyramids.
The Kushite/Nubian kings of Napata and Meroe in what is now Sudan also built pyramids for their burials, based in part on Egyptian pyramid designs and traditions.
You can get a full list of kings for the Old and Middle Kingdoms and find out more about their tombs by looking for information about those time periods. The wiki entries are fairly reliable sources of information and further references.
2007-09-23 13:26:09 · answer #3 · answered by F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The pyramids date from the Old Kingdom. King Tut dates from the New Kingdom, thousands of years later
2007-09-25 09:47:41 · answer #4 · answered by Thomas M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Tut was from a different era than the mummies of the pyramids. He was one of many pharoahs buried in the valley of the Kings. He had a tomb, not a pyramid.
2007-09-23 07:59:41 · answer #5 · answered by sunnygirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only a very few Pharaohs were buried in pyramids. The majority were buried, as was Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings. The tombs were hewn out of the rock.
2007-09-23 06:41:58 · answer #6 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Tut did not have a pyramid, but Rameses did - that's probably the one your know of
2007-09-23 05:36:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. He was buried in one of the caches in the valley of the kings.
2007-09-23 05:36:06 · answer #8 · answered by reg 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋