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The ritual objects, jewels and sculptures that accompanied the young sovereign in his short life and death were discovered in his tomb intact on 4 November 1922, by the British archaeologist and Egyptologist, Howard Carter.
The successors of the child king tried to erase his name from the story, but it was not counting on this strange rendezvous 3,400 years after the reign of this pharaoh of the XVIIIth dynasty.
By sending these masterpieces on a world tour, Egypt gives proof of its an- cient philosophy that death is a new birth. It perpetuates the memory of his pharaoh and his immortality.
The Valley of the Kings was a sacred site, surrounded by mountains and loca- ted on the west bank of the Nile in front of the modern city of Luxor. All the sovereigns of the New Egyptian Empire had their graves there.
In the tomb were stored small objects, such as bows and arrows, as the cha- riots of the Pharaoh, funerary beds, chests-chapels, or his magnificent set of sarcophagi.
Wooden guardian statue of king’s ka wearing nemes headdress GEM 5
18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, 1336 - 1326 BC AD Wood, bitumen, gesso, gilding, copper alloy, limestone, obsidian Height (total) 190 cm; width (total)
56 cm; height (figure) 173.20 cm; width
(figure, shoulders) 45 cm; width (face
before the kilt) 55 cm; diameter (at the waist) 71
cm; length (base) 99 cm; width (base)
33.50 cm; height (base) 16,50 cm
Luxor, Valley of the Kings, KV62, antechamber