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Rocket, v. 1, issue 1, March 1940
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TOMB OF TUT-ANKH-AMEN -Feature Fact Article- [Illustration of Sarcophagus - MD] Tut-Ankh-Amen was a young noble who married the third daugher of the "heretic" Ankenaten, who flouted the Egyptian priesthood by moving his capital from Thebes to Tel-el-Amarna and changing the state religion from worship of the Theban sun god (Amen) to that of the supreme sun god (Aten). When Tut-Ankh-Aten succeeded, somwhat unexpectantly, to the throne, he recanted from the faith of his father-in-law, moved his capital back to Thebes, and changed his name to Tut-Ankh-Amen. His reign was short. His queen was left a young widow. But she was so successful in burying her first husband that he remained unfound amoung his funerary trappings until he, the last of the Phatoahs unaccounted for, turned up as the wonder boy of modern archaeology, inside the first intact royal tomb chambed ever found in Egypt. Theodore Davis, an American, held his concession in Egypt from 1902 until it reverted to the Government in 1914 at which time it was secured by Lord Carnovan and Howard Carter. They knew the tomb to be somewhere in the valley of the kings, but for six long years their labors were unrewarded. It was to be their final season, and like Davis they were ready to admit defeat. On November 4, 1922, there came to light a step cut in the rock. It was only 13 fet below the entrance to the tomb of Ramses VI, who, as we now know died about 1157 B.C., cut his tomb where it is, not knowing the existance of the tomb of Tut-Ansk-Amen, who had been buried 201 years earlier. At the bottom of the 16 steps, Carter came upon a door with nameless seals, but there was also a well known necropolis seal bearing the
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TOMB OF TUT-ANKH-AMEN -Feature Fact Article- [Illustration of Sarcophagus - MD] Tut-Ankh-Amen was a young noble who married the third daugher of the "heretic" Ankenaten, who flouted the Egyptian priesthood by moving his capital from Thebes to Tel-el-Amarna and changing the state religion from worship of the Theban sun god (Amen) to that of the supreme sun god (Aten). When Tut-Ankh-Aten succeeded, somwhat unexpectantly, to the throne, he recanted from the faith of his father-in-law, moved his capital back to Thebes, and changed his name to Tut-Ankh-Amen. His reign was short. His queen was left a young widow. But she was so successful in burying her first husband that he remained unfound amoung his funerary trappings until he, the last of the Phatoahs unaccounted for, turned up as the wonder boy of modern archaeology, inside the first intact royal tomb chambed ever found in Egypt. Theodore Davis, an American, held his concession in Egypt from 1902 until it reverted to the Government in 1914 at which time it was secured by Lord Carnovan and Howard Carter. They knew the tomb to be somewhere in the valley of the kings, but for six long years their labors were unrewarded. It was to be their final season, and like Davis they were ready to admit defeat. On November 4, 1922, there came to light a step cut in the rock. It was only 13 fet below the entrance to the tomb of Ramses VI, who, as we now know died about 1157 B.C., cut his tomb where it is, not knowing the existance of the tomb of Tut-Ansk-Amen, who had been buried 201 years earlier. At the bottom of the 16 steps, Carter came upon a door with nameless seals, but there was also a well known necropolis seal bearing the
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