Of the 5,000 artifacts found in King Tut’s tomb, the 3,300-year-old mask is one of the most famous ancient artifacts. But did it even belong to King Tut himself?
stood in the Valley of the Kings in the cliffs behind Luxor, Egypt. In the previous decades, more than 60 ancient tombs had been investigated and exhumed. Many Egyptologists believed all the tombs had been identified and there was nothing left to unearth. The archaeologist, Howard Carter, sensed otherwise.leading down to a tomb entrance. After years of excavation, his team reached the inner chambers and found a mummified pharaoh.
King Tut wasn’t a pharaoh that many historians considered important. But his death chambers included more than 5,000 artifacts including a stunning funerary mask. In the past century, King Tut’s death mask and other artifacts have made him one of the most famous ancient pharaohs in modern history.The ancient Egyptians believed in sending a deceased person to the afterlife with items they would need such as food, wine, furniture, clothing, jewelry and household goods.
After the first step was found, Carter’s team dug out the steep staircase that lead to an opening below. The tomb was structured so that a personand narrow corridor that measured about 25 feet by 5 feet. There was also an antechamber that was about the same length but a little bit wider, and then a room the team referred to as “the annex.” The burial chamber was another long room, about 21 feet by 13 feet wide.
The tomb was considered small in comparison to the others in the Valley of the Kings. Yet, it took Carter’s team several years to work through the many rooms. There were more than that had to be carefully removed and tagged, and many of these items had been piled on top of each other before the tomb was sealed for thousands of years.
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