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Egyptian Museum
Excursion to Cairo, February 2002The big sensation happened in november, 1922. Howard Carter's excavation team found the first and up to now still the only intact Pharaonic tomb in the "Valley of the Kings" near Luxor. It was the grave of Tut-ench-Amun.
Today one can admire the enormous treasures, death masks, several mummy shrines, throne etc, today in the first floor of the Egyptian museum. Particularly staggering in my opinion is the fact, that Tut-ench-Amun was a comparatively unimportant ruler. He lived around 1350 b.C., held the throne of Egypt approx. 9 years and died very young.
His predecessor was Echnaton, the Pharaoh who resided in Amarna and wanted to believe in only one God, Aton, the sungod. Echnaton had only daughters. One of them he married with Tut-ench-Amun and determined him a his successor. Because of tactical reasons Tut-ench-Amun returned to the traditional polytheism.
The massively gold portrait mask of Tut-ench-Amun lay on the face of the mummy. On the forehead it carries the Nemset cloth with the insignia of the Pharaoh: Uraeus snake and vulture. 54 x 39.3 cms.
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