Question

Write note making of the lesson- discovering tut:the saga continues by a.r.Williams

Answer 1

Tutankhamen or Tut as he was popularly called was the last heir to Egypt’s royal throne. He became the youngest king as a teenager at the age of 15 and died nine years later under mysterious circumstances. Years later in 1922, Howard Carter, a British archaeologist discovered Tut’s tomb that contained his three-layered coffin. Most of the treasures that were buried along with the mummy were already looted.

Garlands of olive and willow leaves, along with cornflowers, lotus petals and wild celery hinted that the death took place during March or April. Resins that were used to affix Tut to the bottom of his coffin had hardened a lot making it impossible to get the body free. As a result, Carter had to cut the body limb by limb. A little more than forty decades later, an X-ray by an anatomy professor revealed that Tut’s front ribs and breastbone were missing.