Tutankhamun is not my name

Have you ever explored Early Egypt from 6,000 years ago?

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INTRODUCING

Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh, discovered after 3,350 years by Howard Carter

In the East Valley of the Kings on the West Bank of the Nile at Thebes now Luxor

Tutankhamun is not my name but one of five so-called names

My claims and credentials to be king as three wishes and two promises of mine

Tutankhamun is three separate words - twt ankh amun - ‘fresh’ ‘life’ ‘Amun’

I promise to start afresh - a new generation for the deity Amun

Few people realize that all my treasures are not a display of wealth

Instead many different types of objects to transform me into my next life

A good life of plenty forever in the stars above with my family

Only in the last few years have my parents been discovered

My father was Smenkhkare and my mother Meritaten

My wife was Ankhesenamun, also my aunt

Many of the objects in my tomb seem to have belonged to Nefertiti

Whose tomb and burial have never been located and might still be hidden


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Early Egypt, new discoveries, new interpretations, pharaoh Tutankhamun, Tomb KV62 in East Valley of the Kings, treasures in Cairo Museum, Smenkhkare, Meritaten, Ankhesenamun, next trip, travel information