Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun Gold Mask Th Cushion

Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun Gold Mask Throw Pillow ... One of archaeology's most beautiful and impressive discoveries. The tomb was discovered in 1922 ... 2022 will be the centennial of the tomb discovery. ... 100 years ... The tomb had been hidden and sealed for well over 3200 years! TUT - ANKH - AMUN traditionally thought to mean roughly IMAGE - LIFE - AMUN ... becoming Living Image of Amun ... Amun was a chief god in Ancient Egypt known as The Hidden God (of the Air) who created everything and evolved to become the chief god then merged with the Sun God Ra becoming Amun-Ra giving a visual effect after all. A spelling variation is Amen. So you will see the name TUT -ANKH - AMEN. Egypt returned to the traditional gods after the death of Tutankhamun's father Amenhotep IV who sought to suppress the growing power of the priests of Amun and threw out all the traditional gods embracing a new religion of the one single god ATEN shown as the Sun disc from which its Sun rays embraced the royal family ... who the royal family were the only priests themselves ... So Amenhotep IV became Akhenaten. And Tutankhamun was originally named TUT - ANKH - ATEN. Upon the death of his father Egypt returned to its traditional gods and traditional priests and temples. Tutankhamun was son of Amenhotep IV / Akhenaten and grandson of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. His mother was Akhenaten's full sister whose name remains uncertain even though her mummy was identified by DNA in tomb KV35 ... believed to not be the Great Royal Wife Queen Nefertiti. Tutankhaten / Tutankhamun was born circa 1341 BC and died circa 1323 BC ... There were two pharaohs briefly between Amenhotep IV / Akhenaten and Tutankhaten / Tutankhamun. One named Neferneferuaten is believed to have been actually Queen Nefertiti. The other is named Smenkhkare (married to a daughter of Nefertiti and Akhenaten: Meritaten) ... Tutankhaten / Tutankhamun became Pharaoh by age 8 or 9 and died at age 18 or 19 ... said to have ruled 9 or 10 years. He was last of his royal family which went back some ten generations to the beginning of the 18th Dynasty circa 1500 BC with Pharaoh Ahmose I who reunited Egypt after the 2nd Intermediate Period, began the 18th Dynasty as well as the New Kingdom. Ahmose I himself descended from earlier pharaohs of the Upper Egypt region ... following the reigns of his brother Kamose and father Seqenenre Tao, the son and successor to Senakhtenre Ahmose and Queen Tetisheri. This pharaoh also may have been descended from a line of pharaohs in Thebes going further back a few generations possibly back to circa 1580 BC the beginning of the 17th Dynasty. So when we say that Tutankhamun was the last of his royal family we do not really know how many generations back that goes. But it includes all the 18th Dynasty and perhaps most or all of a certain line of the 16th Dynasty as far back as 1650 BC. Tutankhamun married his half sister Ankhesenamun. They had no surviving children. Tutankhamun's successor was the vizier Ay. Tutankhamun's cause of death is unknown. His burial mask is 22 pounds of pure gold inlaid with expensive blue stone called lapis lazuli (eye liner, brows) and matching Ancient Egyptian dark blue glass (nemes headdress stripes). His mummy was found in a pure gold coffin nested inside two other gold covered coffins. The three nested gold coffins were in the image of the god Osiris, god of the dead as well as agriculture shown as a shepherd holding crook and flail. The nested gold coffins were inside a granite sarcophagus which itself was inside 4 nested gold covered wood shrines the outermost wich barely fit into the burial chamber. On his forehead were the goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt ... the vulture and the cobra.