![]() ![]() In Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy-King, Christine El Mahdy finally delivers a coherent portrait of King Tut's life and its historical significance. ![]() Traditional histories, founded on incomplete investigation and academic dogma, shed almost no light on the details of a life as complicated and as fascinating as it was short. ![]() Tutankhamen ascended to the throne at approximately eight years of age and ruled for only ten years. She explores his life and legacy as never before, and offers a compelling new window onto the world in which he lived. Despite the young monarch's almost universal recognition in death, Egyptologists know very little about his life. In Tutankhamen, acclaimed Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unshrouds the enigmatic king. Thirty-five hundred years ago, the mightiest empire on Earth crowned a boy as its king, then worshipped him as a god. Lost in a frenzy of speculation-anthropological, scientific, and commercial-was Tutankhamen himself. Christine Hobson el-Mahdy is the author of Tutankhamen (3.96 avg rating, 112 ratings, 18 reviews, published 1996), Mummies, Myth and Magic in Ancient Egy. ![]() What kind of society could produce such spectacular treasures only to bury them forever? When Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in 1922, even the most experienced archaeologists joined the international community in marveling at the incredible wealth-and seemingly bizarre rituals-of ancient Egypt. ![]()
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