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Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his Treasures
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Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his Treasures
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Rosetta Stone
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Akhenaten or Amenhotep IV (front) and Amenhotep III (left)
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King Tutankhamun
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The antechamber how it was found.
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The burial chamber
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The treasury
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In the doorway of the treasury stood a shrine on carrying poles topped by a statue of the jackal god Anubis
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Tomb layout
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The outermost shrine is inscribed with the earliest known copy of the Book of the Heavenly Cow, which describes how Ra reshaped the world into its current form.
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The second shrine bears a funerary text that is found nowhere else, although texts with similar themes are known from the tombs of Ramesses VI (KV9) and Ramesses IX (KV6).
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'Book of the Heavenly Cow' as depicted at the back of the outermost shrine.
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The outermost shrine is inscribed with the earliest known copy of the Book of the Heavenly Cow, which describes how Ra reshaped the world into its current form.
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'Book of the Heavenly Cow' as depicted at the back of the outermost shrine.
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'Book of the Heavenly Cow' as depicted at the back of the outermost shrine.
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Detail of the outermost shrine.
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The second shrine bears a funerary text that is found nowhere else, although texts with similar themes are known from the tombs of Ramesses VI (KV9) and Ramesses IX (KV6).
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The decoration of the shrines, executed in relief, includes portions of several funerary texts. All four shrines bear extracts from the Book of the Dead, and further extracts from the Amduat are on the third shrine
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The fourth shrine
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The sarcophagus measures 2.74 meters long by 1.47 meters wide and is 1.47 meters high. It was carved from a single block of the hardest quartzite and was supported at each corner upon a block of calcite (alabaster)
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The outermost coffin. The outer two coffins were made of gilded wood inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones.
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The outermost coffin. The outer two coffins were made of gilded wood inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones.
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The outermost coffin. The outer two coffins were made of gilded wood inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones.
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The middle coffin. The outer two coffins were made of gilded wood inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones.
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The outer two coffins were made of gilded wood inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones.
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The middle sarcophagus
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The innermost coffin was primarily composed of 110.4 kilograms (243 lb) of solid gold.
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The innermost coffin was primarily composed of 110.4 kilograms (243 lb) of solid gold.
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The innermost coffin was primarily composed of 110.4 kilograms (243 lb) of solid gold.
