archaeology
ARCHAEOLOGY
Archaeology over the past 200 years has significantly aided in the discovery of ancient history. Through archaeology historians have discovered hidden ancient artifacts and cities, improved our knowledge of the past and made accurate the age of archaeological finds. In this essay, it ....
King Tutankhamun
King Tutankhamun lived over 3,300 years ago during a period known as the New Kingdom. This period of time was called the New Kingdom because it was when the pharaohs united upper and lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital being Memphis near current day Cairo. The reason I chose to write a r....
King Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun was the 12th Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1334-1323 BC and lived in 1341 BC - 1323 BC, during the period known as the New Kingdom. His original name, Tutankhaten, meant "Living Image of Aten", while Tutankhamun meant "Living Image of Amun". Tutankhamun began ....
King Tuts Tomb
King Tut, whos full name was Nebkheperure Tutankhamen, was the twelfth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1333 1324 B.C. during a period called the New Kingdom.
Howard Carter started working in Egypt at the age of seventeen. He was a great artist and used this ski....
King Tutuankhamen
Introduction
Ironically, our greatest royal treasure from ancient Egypt comes from a short-lived boy king. King Tutankhamun was not even in the same category of achievement as such great Egyptian kings as Khufu, Amenhotep III, or Rameses II, in terms of the length of his reign or the depth of....
Life of King Tut
In the 18th dynasty of Ancient Egypt there was a king named Akhenaton. He was married to a woman named Nefertiti who produced six daughters. When they became older they needed an heir to the throne and they did not have a boy. So King Akhenaton went to a lesser wife, named Kyia, and they had conceiv....
Looting
The purpose of an archaeologist is to study human cultural activities through the analysis of material remains. The importance of a site remaining uncontaminated and unaltered is vital in the process of reconstructing sites and accurately assessing the material remains. When a site is tampered wit....