On the 4th of November 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter (1874 –1939) and his team found the entrance to the 14th-century BC Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. This little known pharaoh ruled in the 18th dynasty (ca. 1332 BC – 1323 BC) during the Egyptian New Kingdom period. He ascended to the throne at the age of nine and reigned for 10 years, in which he married his half-sister who bore his twin daughters, both stillborn and buried alongside him in the tomb. The king is thought to have had powerful councillors, particularly his vizier Ay, whose role was to advise, as well as calm his young temper. As a product of an incestuous relationship himself (his mother was one of his father’s five sisters), Tutankhamun suffered genetic defects which caused physical disabilities during his life, i.e. he walked with a cane…
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