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THE name of Tutankhamen, king of Egypt, whose reign may with comparative certainty be placed in the decade 1360–1350 B.C., is now a household word, and is probably known to many who have never heard of Thothmes or Rameses. The discovery of his tomb at Thebes by Lord Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter, with its wealth of funerary furniture and the magnificent state which probably enshrines the actual body of the king, has made Tutankhamen familiar to all; so that, at any rate for the time, we regard him as the typical Egyptian pharaoh of his age. But, as a matter of fact, he was an ephemeral and undistinguished monarch personally, and his short reign is only remarkable for one fact, the return of Egypt to the polytheistic faith of her forefathers after the short episode of the Disk-worshipping heresy of his father-in-law, Akhenaten, the artist, poet, and pacificist, one of the most extraordinary figures of the ancient world.
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HALL, H. The Egyptian World in the Time of Tutankhamen. Nature 111, 398–399 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111398a0
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