Qualla: Tomb of Tutankhamun https://qualla.com/tomb-of-tutankhamun en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/tomb-of-tutankhamun-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tomb of Tutankhamun https://qualla.com/tomb-of-tutankhamun Tomb of Tutankhamun: Introduction https://qualla.com/tomb-of-tutankhamun/ Photo credit Ovedc, CC BY-SA 4.0. "Can you see anything?" Lord Carnarvon asked, peering over the shoulder of the man chipping a hole in a sealed doorway. Howard Carter held up a candle, and as warm air rushed past the flame, shapes resolved out of the dark: gilded couches, statues, the glint of gold everywhere. "Yes," he answered. "Wonderful things." It was 26 November 1922, and Carter had just become the first person in more than three millennia to look into the burial of Tutankhamun. The irony is bottomless. Tutankhamun was a minor king who died young, buried in a tomb so small and hastily adapted that it had probably been dug for a commoner. Yet his is the only royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings ever found with its treasures essentially intact, and that accident of survival made him the most famous pharaoh who ever lived.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/tomb-of-tutankhamun-wp/ssx4-tomb-of-tutankhamun-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tomb of Tutankhamun: The Boy Who Restored the Gods https://qualla.com/tomb-of-tutankhamun/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Tutankhamun took the throne as a child, around 1332 BC, in the wreckage left by his probable father, the heretic king Akhenaten, who had tried to abolish Egypt's many gods in favor of a single sun disc called the Aten. The boy reversed it. He even changed his own name from Tutank...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/tomb-of-tutankhamun-wp/ssx4-tomb-of-tutankhamun-the-boy-who-restored-the-gods.mp3 0:06 2 full Tomb of Tutankhamun: Buried by a Flood, Hidden by Huts https://qualla.com/tomb-of-tutankhamun/ Photo credit Chatsam, CC BY-SA 3.0. KV62 was cut low, into the very floor of the valley, and that proved decisive. A flash flood washed a thick layer of debris over its entrance. More than a century later, workers cutting the tomb of Ramesses VI piled their rubble on top, then built their stone huts atop the rubble...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/tomb-of-tutankhamun-wp/ssx4-tomb-of-tutankhamun-buried-by-a-flood-hidden-by-huts.mp3 0:06 3 full Tomb of Tutankhamun: Five Thousand Objects in Four Rooms https://qualla.com/tomb-of-tutankhamun/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 2.5. The tomb held 5,398 objects, packed into four cramped chambers with almost no room to spare. There were dismantled chariots, beds, board games, a foldable camp bed found nowhere else from ancient Egypt, weapons including a dagger of rare iron, trumpets, hundreds of pieces of jewe...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/s/x/4/tomb-of-tutankhamun-wp/ssx4-tomb-of-tutankhamun-five-thousand-objects-in-four-rooms.mp3 0:06 4 full Tomb of Tutankhamun: Tutmania and the Curse https://qualla.com/tomb-of-tutankhamun/ Photo credit لا روسا, CC BY-SA 4.0. The discovery detonated a global craze. Newspapers chased every shipment of artifacts down the little railway to the Nile; fashion, architecture and advertising filled with Egyptian motifs in a frenzy nicknamed "Tutmania." The boy-king became, absurdly, a celebrity, known affecti...

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