12/21/2023 0 Comments The pharaoh's holy treasureThere he was raised by his wet nurse, Maia, whose impressive tomb at Saqqara shows that Tut held her in high regard for the rest of his life. Tut’s childhood was spent in his father’s holy city at the modern site of Amarna. DNA studies on the subject have suggested his mother’s body is the one known as the KV35 ‘Younger Lady’ but this connection and the body’s identity have proven controversial with scholars.īust of Nefertiti, one of the potential mothers of Tutankhamun, via Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Akhenaten’s famous wife Nefertiti, a lesser wife named Kiya, or one of Akhenaten’s sisters have been suggested as candidates. Tut’s birth name was Tutankhaten (Living Image of Aten) to honor his father’s god. He was probably the son of the infamous heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten who overthrew Egypt’s traditional religion in favor of the exclusive worship of the solar deity Aten. He was born around 1342 BCE towards the end of what Egyptologists call the 18th Dynasty. Tutankhamun’s origins are shrouded in mystery. King Tut: A Boy Who Would Be King The Mask of Tutankhamun, held at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, via Wikimedia Commons
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