Tutankhamun's 'dark secrets' laid bare with 'shocking evidence': 'Terrible wound'
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TUTANKHAMUN's family's "dark secrets" were laid bare in a new documentary released tomorrow.
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Of all the things that ancient Egypt has offered archaeologists, Tutankhamun is perhaps one of the greatest. The boy king became a pharaoh after the death of his father, Akhenaten. At this point, Egypt was enduring a controversial period after Akhenaten outlawed the kingdom's many gods except for one called Aten, the sun god.
The Egyptian people were severely unhappy with this, and when he died, they toppled and destroyed many of his statues and monuments.
Tutankhmaun was just nine years old when he took the throne, and to appease his people — likely the work of his powerful advisors — he reestablished the old religious order and apologised for his father's work.
He went on to rule for roughly ten years, and was buried with the rest of Egypt's pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings.
But while the chambers around him were looted and ransacked over the millennia, his lay untouched for over 3,000 years until British Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered it in 1922.
While some information is known about his rule, little is known about his childhood.
This all changed, however, during Channel 5's new documentary, 'Tutankhamun: Waking the Dead' with Bettany Hughes, when the historian was given privileged access to the tomb of Amenhotep II, Tutankhmaun's great-great grandfather.
Of all the things that ancient Egypt has offered archaeologists, Tutankhamun is perhaps one of the greatest. The boy king became a pharaoh after the death of his father, Akhenaten. At this point, Egypt was enduring a controversial period after Akhenaten outlawed the kingdom's many gods except for one called Aten, the sun god.
Egyptian people were severely unhappy with this, and when he died, they toppled and destroyed many of his statues and monuments.
was just nine years old when he took the throne, and to appease his people — likely the work of his powerful advisors — he reestablished the old religious order and apologised for his father's work.
He went on to rule for roughly ten years, and was buried with the rest of Egypt's pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings.
But while the chambers around him were looted and ransacked over the millennia, his lay untouched for over 3,000 years until British Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered it in 1922.
Tutankhamun: 'Dark secrets' about the boy king's childhood were laid bare (Image: GETTY/Channel 5)
Valley of the Kings: Tut, like his fellow pharaohs, was buried in the famous Valley of the Kings (Image: GETTY)
While some information is known about his rule, little is known about his childhood.
This all changed, however, during Channel 5's new documentary, 'Tutankhamun: Waking the Dead' with Bettany Hughes, when the historian was given privileged access to the tomb of Amenhotep II, Tutankhmaun's great-great grandfather.
Of all the things that ancient Egypt has offered archaeologists, Tutankhamun is perhaps one of the greatest. The boy king became a pharaoh after the death of his father, Akhenaten. At this point, Egypt was enduring a controversial period after Akhenaten outlawed the kingdom's many gods except for one called Aten, the sun god.
The Egyptian people were severely unhappy with this, and when he died, they toppled and destroyed many of his statues and monuments.
Tutankhmaun was just nine years old when he took the throne, and to appease his people — likely the work of his powerful advisors — he reestablished the old religious order and apologised for his father's work.
He
went on to rule for roughly ten years, and was buried with the rest of Egypt's pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings.
But while the chambers around him were looted and ransacked over the millennia, his lay untouched for over 3,000 years until British Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered it in 1922.
Tutankhamun: 'Dark secrets' about the boy king's childhood were laid bare (Image: GETTY/Channel 5)
Valley of the Kings: Tut, like his fellow pharaohs, was buried in the famous Valley of the Kings (Image: GETTY)
While some information is known about his rule, little is known about his childhood.
This all changed, however, during Channel 5's new documentary, 'Tutankhamun: Waking the Dead' with Bettany Hughes, when the historian was given privileged access to the tomb of Amenhotep II, Tutankhmaun's great-great grandfather.
50-metre journey deep into the rock, Ms Hughes walked through pillared halls and painted walkways before reaching the inner sanctum which is home to the burial chamber and Amenhotep II's sarcophagus.
While the whole tomb was made for him, he was not the only person who ended up there, as in a side chamber, a stash of unidentified royal mummies was discovered which had likely been hidden from tomb raiders.