What did they find in King Tut’s tomb? Cienna (11)
Hi Cienna
As Howard Carter said when he first opened the tomb… “Wonderful things!” Several thousand items were recovered, many made of gold, including statues, musical instruments, jewelery and chariots.
Most importantly, they found Tutankamun himself, mummified in his sarcophagus with the famous gold death mask. A huge amount of evidence has been recoverd in recent years about his life and death from his body and the objects he was buried with. There are many important unanswered questions, too, such as why he was buried quickly in such a small tomb, and whether there is another tomb attached to his.
Perhaps the most signifcant thing is that they found anything at all, as many of the Egyptian Pharoah tombs were robbed long before archaeologists discovered them.
From Ian the Archaeologist
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