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Who was King Tut?

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King Tut's pyramid didn't have a name, it wasn't finished by the time he died.

King Tut's final resting place was a tomb that was suposed to be built for a noble. He didn't have a pyramid because the Egytain stopped making because people stole the gold and rich things from it. He was buried in the valley of kings.
The Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun didn't have a pyramid. The age of pyramids was long past when he was buried in an underground tomb in what is known as The Valley of The Kings around 1323 BCE. For comparison, the Great Pyramid at Giza, probably the tomb of a Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh named Khufu, is thought to have been completed about 2560 BCE, over a thousand years earlier.

There were two problems with the pyramids: they required an enormous workforce to build, which had to be fed, clothed, housed and paid (they were not built by slaves); and as sanctuaries for the bodies of the Pharaohs they were complete failures, as all the pyramids were broken into and robbed, probably not long after the death of the king and possibly by some of the people who buried him, who knew where he was and how much loot had been buried with him.

This doesn't mean that Pharaohs buried in The Valley of The Kings fared much better. Most of their tombs were plundered also. The reason King Tutankhamun's tomb seems to have escaped is because there was a later tomb dug out just above it. The detritus from that tomb buried Tut's tomb to a point where the grave robbers apparently couldn't find it. In fact, there was evidence of at least one early attempt at robbing the tomb that failed to get at the really valuable stuff, after which the tomb was buried and lost for over 3000 years until Howard Carter stumbled over it in 1922.

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Tutankhamen, or Tutankhamun, is known as "King Tut," an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, a "boy king" who ruled from about 1333 BC to 1323 BC. His burial chambers in the Valley of the Kings were not completely looted by grave robbers, and were only discovered in 1922 by British Egyptologists Howard Carter and George Herbert. Many artifacts, as well as the mummified body of King Tut himself, were found in pristine condition, and have been thoroughly studied in the decades since.
King tutankhamen is the king who ruled Egypt from when he was 9 years of age. His tomb was discovered over 3,000 years ago.

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King Tut, Tutankhamun, was a Pharaoh who ruled ancient Egypt during the New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty from 1333 BC - 1323 BC. He began ruling at the age of 9 due to the death of his father at the age of 5. His brother had already died, and he was heir to the throne (next in line). He died at the age of 18 due to an infection in the leg. This infection turned into gangrene which in the end, killed him. He is known as "The Boy King" as he was crowned at an early age.

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Tutankamun was found by Howard Carter, they discovered the tomb when a waterboy was walking along and hey found he stairs to his tomb that has been undisturbed for centurys. Tutankamun was said to be the son of Akanaton, who changed the religion in Egypt, he made all the gods into one god 'Ra'. People didn't respect him because he changed the religion of Egypt.

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Tutankhamun was the most famous Egyptian Pharaoh. He was considered the most famous as his tomb was lathered in the most riches ever found in any tomb in Egypt.

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