Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun Gold Mask Acrylic Print
Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun Gold Mask Acrylic Print ... One of archeology'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 disk from which its Sun rays embraced the royal family ... 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 Pharaoh 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, and so began the 18th Dynasty as well as the New Kingdom. Ahmose I himself descended from earlier pharaohs of the Upper Egypt Thebes 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 the 17th Dynasty and, perhaps, 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 wooden coffins. The three nested gold coffins were in the image of the Ancient Egyptian god Osiris, God of the Dead as well as of agriculture and shown as a Shepherd holding crook and flail to guide and protect his flock. The nested gold coffins were inside a granite sarcophagus which itself was inside 4 nested gold covered wood shrines the outermost which barely fit into the burial chamber. On his forehead were the goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt ... the vulture and the cobra. In a story that is familiar to us elsewhere, Osiris (then a king in Egypt) was killed (by his jealous brother Seth who later dismembered Osiris ... scattering the body parts) ... but, was raised from the dead, resurrected (by his wife (queen) Isis (who was also his sister). She managed to locate all his body parts except for one body part I cannot name here but which she made a substitute for ... then, by becoming a bird and flapping her wings blew life back into Osiris. Where upon Isis managed to magically become pregnant with their son Horus ... who was able to turn into an all seeing falcon ... sometimes seen as a human body with head of a falcon with the special falcon eye.. This Ancient Egyptian story was ancient before the first Ancient Egyptian dynasty. Because of this magical powerful story, each new young Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh took a Horus name and was the living form of the god Horus ... but, in death, became one with his father Osiris, god of the Dead and of agriculture. As a Pharaoh, Osiris taught his people how to raise crops and to keep herds of cattle and or of sheep ... so his people had enough food to give up cannibalism. So, upon death of each pharaoh, the pharaoh passed from his Earthly Horus role to the resurrected Heavenly role as one with his father Osiris. This explains why Tutankhamun was buried in three nested gold coffins all made to look like Osiris, the resurrected ancient pharaoh ... since each pharaoh hoped to become resurrected from death like Osiris was. Tutankhamun was a relatively minor pharaoh but look at all the gold found in his burial chamber ... just try to imagine the treasures we never saw in the tombs of greater pharaohs because tomb robbers got to those tombs long ago. Tutankhamun's gold burial mask is 22 pounds of gold plus expensive imported blue stone called lapis lazuli from what is now Afghanistan. His innermost coffin was solid gold. The other two were gold covered all in a stone sarcophagus inside 4 nested gold covered shrines. All this was sealed hidden from the world for over 3200 years.
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