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This is an article regarding mummy of Tut, who was considered as last heir of powerful family that ruled Egypt. He died in his last teens. His death has been mystery since his tomb was first discovered in 1922. After 80 years his tomb had been extracted again for a CT scan in 2005. This may lead to discover something new about his life and death. When the Tomb of Tut was taken away, an angry wind stirred up ghostly dust devils.
The area was surrounded by a lot of tourists nearby. They gazed at wall paintings and Tut’s preserved dead body. Some of them were thinking how Tut might have died in his late Teens. According to Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities it the mummy of Tut was damaged by James Carter, a British Archaeologist who investigated the mummy in 1922. He was buried with everything he might have been using in his day to day life.
Carter when found Mummy Tut was cemented to the bottom of his solid gold coffin. He tried to loosen the resin by putting the mummy in the blazing sun shine but he failed. He had to use the chisel to remove the mummy as thieves would have cut it and taken all the gold. Ancient Egyptian use to believe that dead person takes all his belongings with them. Thus the dead person was buried with his belongings. Tut was buried with gold jewelries.
Archaeology has changed over a period of time. Archaeologist's now a days look for details of ancient life and mysteries of death instead of treasures. More sophisticated tools and modern methods like CT scan is introduced in archaeology. Now after the CT scan, his tomb was investigated. King Tut’s demise was a big event, even by royal standards. He was the last of his family’s line, and his funeral was the death rattle of a dynasty. But the particulars of his passing away and its aftermath are unclear.
Tut took the thrown at very young age. He became king after Smenkhkare, who succeed Akhenaten. Tut ruled for about 9 years. The Egyptian Mummy Project, which began an inventory in late 2003, has recorded almost 600 so far and is still counting. The next phase: scanning the mummies with a portable CT machine. Tut was one of the first Mummy to get investigated under CT scan. A CT machine scanned the mummy head to toe, creating 1,700 digital X-ray images in cross section.
They were looking for how the mummy has been protected for so long. The million-dollar scanner had quit because of sand in a cooler fan. After three hours of CT scan, Tuts mummy was carried back to its tomb. The CT scanned image was observed on computer screen. The image was observed and analyzed. The whole process got completed properly and nothing went seriously wrong.
Tutankhamun was the last leader of the great Pharaoh Dynasty. He was young when he died. According to some people, his death was a murder. In the year 1922, his tomb was exposed by Howard Carter, an Archaeologist. After 80 years, he was taken for the CT scan to solve the mystery of his life and death through a forensic reconstruction.
His father or grandfather, Amenhotep III, was a very powerful Pharaoh ruler over a period of 40 years. Moreover, his son, Amenhotep IV, succeeded him and initiated the strangest period in the history of Egypt. His name changed to Akhenaten which means servant of Athens. He changed the religious capital from Thebes to Amarna. Later he attacked Amun, a god, ruined his images and shut his temples. Another mysterious ruler thrived him who died very soon. Tutankhamun sat on the power and ruled for 9 years.
When Tut’s mummified body was found, he had lots of gold and wealth. Carter got him after so many years. After conducting the research on the treasures, he planned to examine his 3 nested boxes. Many parts of the treasure in the tomb were already misplaced.
His tomb was found rock-cut, 26 feet under the ground, which also had some wall paintings. It reveals that he was suppressed in the months of March or April. One of the coffin put Carter into trouble. The gums used to paste Tut to the lowest of the solid gold. Coffin was toughening enough that made it impossible to displace. He put the box in the sun for numerous hours so that the resins lose up but that didn’t work.
At last, he removed the adhesive with the chisel and hammer. Carter sensed he didn’t have any other choice than cutting the mummy from limb to limb, thieves would have robbed the gold and the treasures. His men first removed the head of the mummy, then they cut off each and every joint. After the process of removing all the body parts, they placed it on the layer of sand. They kept the parts in a wooden box and placed it at the original place.
Later, in January 2009, the body was taken for a CT scan which takes hundreds of X-Rays and generates a 3D image. That night after the scan, the workmen passed his body from the tomb into a box. They went through the ramp and stairs and lifted the body on a hydraulic trailer that was holding the scanner. The scanner suddenly stopped working and the process of the CT scan stopped. After the use of a pair of spare fans, the scan was finally completed. After 3 hours, they transferred his body back to his tomb where his body is now resting in peace.