Tutankhamun

Egyptian Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty (?, H. 1372 - Thebes?, 1354 a. C.). Son of Pharaoh Tutankhamun was Akhenaten, who died childless men, hence was succeeded by his sons, Semenkera and Tutankhamen, the latter, his brother, took the throne to the 1360. C. In fact, until the death of his father, took the name Tutankhamun Tutankhaton in honor of the sun god Aten Akhenaten whose cult had driven on an almost monotheistic.

Three years after acceding to the throne, the new king restored the traditional religion and therefore the power of the priests of Amon, seriously weakened in the previous reign, while the capital back to Thebes, leaving the capital created by Akhenaton in Amarna, and to symbolize these changes, replaced his own name to Tutankhamun (meaning "the living image of Amun).


Mask of Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun's reign had no other meaning than this restoration of the traditional order of Pharaonic Egypt, under the influence of the priests and conservative generals. Tutankhamun died when he was only 18 and had six of reign, probably in a palace revolt.

Tutankhamen is famous for his tomb was the only tomb in the Valley of the Kings that came without loot to the contemporary age, its discovery by Howard Carter in 1922 was a global archaeological event, showing the splendor and wealth of the royal tombs and exposing valuable information on the time.