what is remarkable about king Tut's mummy
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Tutankhamun's mummy was discovered by English Egyptologist Howard Carter and his team on October 28, 1925 in tomb KV62 of Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun was the 13th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, making his mummy over 3,300 years old.
The innermost was made of solid gold and contained the mummy of the king wearing his famous death mask. The linen wrappings of the mummy it enshrined were not removed for a year after its discovery.
The excessive use of oils and unguents had adversely affected the corpse, making its mummification essentially a failure.
The tomb was important because it let archaeologists record what an Egyptian king's tomb looked like and learn more about ancient Egypt.
A public interest in archaeology rose after the discovery of the mummy.
