When Howard Miller and his team made their way into the first chamber they saw something like this. Miller cataloged everything that they found. An artist that accompanied him sketched everything as they found it. You have to remember that at this time they didn't have the fancy torches we have today, back then they used candles and Indiana Jones-style torches to light their way. At first, they thought that grave robbers had ransacked the chamber since the chariots were in disarray and possibly were frightened away by guards or someone else, but now they think that these items were just crammed in there.
The yellowish balls in the center are thought to have been filled with food for consumption in the underworld.
Looks to me like the relatives left behind, didn't want to sort through all the cutter the deceased left in his house so they just buried it with him.
When I go, my lids may feel the same but, sadly, I won't have a big grave for them to use. :)
@skipt07 I was just showing my son your photos and he said he finds the story of Tutankhamun so sad. He was so young, went through so much and had such a love of all things duck.....toys, clothing.....and that just seemed so poignant somehow when you only lived to 19 years old. Amazing how so much legend grew up around such a short life and reign.
@casablanca - Your son is so right. I was just thinking about what we saw while at the exhibit and like I mentioned to Kathy, @randystreat, they might have been hoarders like many people today. But, he did become king at age nine and died at an early age, 19 and throw in that the people treated him as a deity while he was alive, I'm sure he was lavished with valuable things.
The Egyptians believed very much in the afterlife but their religion full of false gods had them believe that when they died they needed things to continue to live in the afterlife. Today people are still looking to things to achieve happiness in their lives and accumulate stuff that never truly satisfies. The more they get the more they want.
Today we know without a doubt that you can't take your stuff with us. I heard a preacher once ask, "have you ever seen a U-Haul following a hearse?"
Another sad thing is that, as advanced as the Egyptians were for their time, scientists believe that King Tut died from that is possibly easily treatable today.
There are different theories about his death. One being that
he had health issues, including scoliosis, and had contracted several strains of malaria. He likely died of complications from a broken leg, that got infected possibly compounded by malaria.
Isn't this just so fascinating? Also, some historians believe that many of the items king tut was buried with once belonged to the "heretic" king Akhenaten. https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/akhenaten.html
September 8th, 2023
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When I go, my lids may feel the same but, sadly, I won't have a big grave for them to use. :)
The Egyptians believed very much in the afterlife but their religion full of false gods had them believe that when they died they needed things to continue to live in the afterlife. Today people are still looking to things to achieve happiness in their lives and accumulate stuff that never truly satisfies. The more they get the more they want.
Today we know without a doubt that you can't take your stuff with us. I heard a preacher once ask, "have you ever seen a U-Haul following a hearse?"
Another sad thing is that, as advanced as the Egyptians were for their time, scientists believe that King Tut died from that is possibly easily treatable today.
There are different theories about his death. One being that
he had health issues, including scoliosis, and had contracted several strains of malaria. He likely died of complications from a broken leg, that got infected possibly compounded by malaria.