King+Tut

by Joharah Grade 5



In November of 1922, in the Valley of the Kings, Howard Carter found King Tutankhamun’s tomb. This was an important event in the twentieth century. It brought excitement and a whole new discovery to the world. The tomb had not been seen or even touched for over 3,000 years. The whole world was waiting to see what was inside of this valuable and historical discovery.

King Tut was the ruler over Egypt and died around the age of eighteen. He died from malaria and a bone condition. His condition left his body so weak that he couldn’t fight off the malaria. Since King Tut was going to be greatly missed, his family and friends thought he should be buried with the best. He was buried with gold and ancient treasures.

Inside of the tomb, Carter found what King Tut was buried with: golden shrines, jewelry, furniture, clothes and figurines. As Carter got deeper into the tomb he found a couple of holes and damage of some items, which meant possible robbery. As the archaeologists were looking at and studying the items, they had to be very careful to not drop or damage them because they were thousands of years old.

When Carter found King Tut’s sarcophagus, not only King Tut’s body was found. Under the sarcophagus were four coffins, which got smaller and smaller. On the bottom of the third coffin, there was a thick liquid which stuck to the fourth coffin, but was eventually removed. When the fourth coffin was opened, there lay King Tut. Carter tried to unwrap the gauze that was on King Tut and even the archaeologists helping him couldn’t seem to unwrap it either. They hypothesized that the damage was done by the sticky, thick liquid.

When the whole world found out that King Tut’s tomb was found, excitement hit. Fashion trends from Egypt started and news reporters found out whatever they could to make a scene in the tabloids. This discovery changed the world in many ways. No one thought that finding this ancient tomb was possible, but Howard Carter proved people wrong. Just because no one’s done it before, doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

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