![]() ![]() His names- Tutankhaten and Tutankhamun-are thought to mean "Living image of Aten" and "Living image of Amun", with Aten replaced by Amun after Akhenaten's death. During their marriage they lost two daughters, one at 5–6 months of pregnancy and the other shortly after birth at full-term. He married his paternal half-sister Ankhesenamun. Tutankhamun took the throne at eight or nine years of age under the unprecedented viziership of his eventual successor, Ay, to whom he may have been related. His mother is his father's sister, identified through DNA testing as an unknown mummy referred to as " The Younger Lady" who was found in KV35. His father is believed to be the pharaoh Akhenaten, identified as the mummy found in the tomb KV55. 1332 – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology) during the New Kingdom of Egyptian history. 1341-1323 BC), sometimes referred to as King Tut, was an Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th Dynasty (ruled c. ![]() Tutankhamun ( / ˌ t uː t ən k ɑː ˈ m uː n/, Ancient Egyptian: twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn), Egyptological pronunciation Tutankhamen ( / ˌ t uː t ən ˈ k ɑː m ɛ n/) ( c. KV55 mummy, identified as most likely Akhenaten The living image of Amun, Ruler of Southern Heliopolis. The possessor of the manifestation of Re. Įlevated of appearances, who has satisfied the gods. Perfect of laws, who has quieted down the Two Lands. ![]() Victorious bull, the (very) image of (re)birth. ![]()
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