Question

Give a brief descriptions of tut's family?

Answer 1

King Tut was last heir of a powerful family of Pharaoh dynasty that had ruled Egypt and its empire for centuries. In those ancient times, people believed in afterlife; so at the time of burial, the kings' mummified bodies were provided every day things they would need in the afterlife. King Tut's tomb remains the richest tomb in the world.

Amenhotep III, Tut's father or grandfather, was a powerful pharaoh who ruled for almost four decades at the height of the eighteenth dynasty’s golden age. His son Amenhotep IV succeeded him and initiated one of the strangest periods in the history of ancient Egypt. The new pharaoh promoted the worship of the Aten, the sun disk, changed his name to Akhenaten, and moved the religious capital from the old city of Thebes to the new city of Akhetaten, known now as Amarna. He further shocked the country by attacking Amun, a major god, smashing his images and closing his After Akhenaten’s death, a mysterious ruler named Smenkhkare appeared briefly and exited with hardly a trace. And then a very young Tutankhaten took the throne — King Tut as he’s widely known today. The boy king soon changed his name to Tutankhamun, ‘living image of Amun,’ and oversaw a restoration of the old ways.