Toward the end of the Amarna Period, two other pharaohs appear in the record who were apparently Akhenaten's co-regents: Neferneferuaten, a female ruler who may have been Akhenaten's wife Nefertiti or his daughter Meritaten and Smenkhkare, whom some Egyptologists believe was the same person as Neferneferuaten but most regard as a distinct figure. Akhenaten's reign was characterized by a dramatic shift in ancient Egyptian religion, known as Atenism, and the relocation of the capital to the site of Amarna, which gave its name to the modern term for this era, the Amarna Period. Tutankhamun, whose original name was Tutankhaten or Tutankhuaten, was born during the reign of Akhenaten, during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
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The treasures 2019–2022 tour began in Los Angeles and will end in 2022 at the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which, for the first time, will be displaying the full Tutankhamun collection, gathered from all of Egypt's museums and storerooms. This exhibit featured Tutankhamun's predecessors from the 18th Dynasty, including Hatshepsut and Akhenaten, but did not include the golden death mask. There were no international exhibitions again until 2005–2011. The 1972–1979 exhibit was shown in United States, Soviet Union, Japan, France, Canada, and West Germany. The exhibits drew in millions of visitors. The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities allowed tours beginning in 1962 with the exhibit at the Louvre in Paris, followed by the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan. Some of his treasure has traveled worldwide with unprecedented response. He has, since the discovery of his intact tomb, been referred to colloquially as " King Tut". The deaths of a few involved in the discovery of Tutankhamun's mummy have been popularly attributed to the curse of the pharaohs. With over 5,000 artifacts, it sparked a renewed public interest in ancient Egypt, for which Tutankhamun's mask, now in the Egyptian Museum, remains a popular symbol. The 1922 discovery by Howard Carter of Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb, in excavations funded by Lord Carnarvon, received worldwide press coverage. He had other health issues including scoliosis and had contracted several strains of malaria. Tutankhamun was physically disabled with a deformity of his left foot along with bone necrosis that required the use of a cane, several of which were found in his tomb. He moved his father's remains to the Valley of the Kings as well as moving the capital from Akhetaten to Thebes. Tutankhamun restored the Ancient Egyptian religion after its dissolution by his father, enriched and endowed the priestly orders of two important cults and began restoring old monuments damaged during the previous Amarna period. A small number of Egyptologists, including Battiscombe Gunn, believe the translation may be incorrect and closer to "The-life-of-Aten-is-pleasing" or, as Professor Gerhard Fecht believes, reads as "One-perfect-of-life-is-Aten". His names- Tutankhaten and Tutankhamun-are thought to mean "Living image of Aten" and "Living image of Amun", with Aten replaced by Amun after Akhenaten's death. During their marriage they lost two daughters, one at 5–6 months of pregnancy and the other shortly after birth at full-term. Tutankhamun took the throne at eight or nine years of age under the unprecedented viziership of his eventual successor, Ay, to whom he may have been related. His mother is his father's sister, identified through DNA testing as an unknown mummy referred to as " The Younger Lady" who was found in KV35. His father is believed to be the pharaoh Akhenaten, identified as the mummy found in the tomb KV55. 1332 – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology) during the New Kingdom of Egyptian history. Tutankhamun ( / ˌ t uː t ən k ɑː ˈ m uː n/, Ancient Egyptian: twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn Təwātə-ʿānəḫ-amānə, pronounced Egyptological pronunciation Tūt-anḫ-āmen, / ˌ t uː t ən ˈ k ɑː m ɛ n/ c. 1341 – c. 1323 BC), commonly referred to as King Tut, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th Dynasty (ruled c. KV55 mummy, identified as most likely Akhenaten Įlevated of appearances, who has satisfied the gods. Perfect of laws, who has quieted down the Two Lands. Victorious bull, the (very) image of (re)birth.
The living image of Amun, Ruler of Southern Heliopolis. The possessor of the manifestation of Re.