THE GOLDEN SHRINES OF TUTANKHAMUN AND THEIR INTENDED BURIAL PLACE

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Lecturer, Tourism guidance dept., Faculty of Archaeology & Tourism guidance, Misr Univ. for Sciences & Technology, 6th October city, Egypt

Abstract

The most famous tomb at the Valley of the Kings, KV 62 housed so far the most intact discovery of
royal funerary treasures belonging to the eighteenth dynasty boy-king Tutankhamun. The tomb has a
simple architectural plan clearly prepared for a non- royal burial. However, the hastily death of
Tutankhamun at a young age caused his interment in such unusually small tomb. The treasures
discovered were immense in number, art finesse and especially in the amount of gold used. Of these
treasures the largest shrine of four shrines laid in the burial chamber needed to be dismantled and
reassembled in the tomb because of its immense size. Clearly the black marks on this shrine helped
in the assembly and especially the orientation in relation to the burial chamber. These marks are
totally incorrect and prove that Tutankhamun was definitely intended to be buried in another tomb.

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