King Tut

Review: Williams, A. R., “King Tut”, in the National Geographic, photographed by Kenneth Garrett, June, 2005

A.R. Williams writes several articles for the National Geographic Magazine. Both she and Garrett found this trip very fun to explore.

She describes Tut as “not a major player in Egypt Pharaonic history”. This reviewer also agrees that there is not much known about this ruler. It is believed that Tut ruled Egypt between 1334 and 1325 B.C. He began to rule and got married to Ankhesenpaaten at the age of nine. Tutankhaten was name given at birth to Tutankhamun. Not much is known about his family members but it is believed that his father was Akhenaten, the pharaoh and his mother was probably Kiya, a lesser wife of Akhenaten. Tutankhamun probably had two daughters, no sons.

Throughout his ruling he was most likely to be under the direction of Ay and Horemheb. This reader believes threat these two men would more than likely tell King Tut everything that he had to do to be ruler. These two men also advise the king to return to traditional Egyptian ancient religion. Some of the things that were mentioned in the article about Horemheb were that he later took credit for most of the things that the king had done. King Tut was known for the building work at Karnak and Luxor. He also had statues and sphinxes depicting his image, as well as a temple in his name. King Tut built the temple in Kawa and still to this day has the granite lion statues, which were standing at the entrance of the temple, displayed at the entrance of the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery at the British Museum. Williams states that they have recently found out that when King Tut died he was no older than eighteen years old. There are many