Talk:Tutankhamun/stuff removed

Stuff removed from article. --*Kat* (talk) 16:54, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

From Parentage: Previously, speculations about Tutankhamun's parents were abundant because of the piecemeal evidence available before DNA testing. Tutankhamun had been thought to be the son of his grandparents, Amenhotep III and his Great Royal Wife, Queen Tiye. Others claimed that he may have been a son of Amenhotep III, although not by Queen Tiye since she would have been around 50 at the time of his birth. Professor James Allen argued that Tutankhamun was more likely to be a son of the short-lived king Smenkhkare rather than Akhenaten.

One common theory not eliminated now is that Tutankhamun's mother was Kiya, a minor wife of Akhenaten. Queen Kiya's title was "Greatly Beloved Wife of Akhenaten", and images in Akhenaten's Amarna tomb show a royal fan bearer standing next to Kiya's death bed, fanning someone who may be a princess. Researchers also thought the figure was a wet nurse holding a baby, considered to be the boy king-to-be.

More evidence of the incestuous nature of Egyptian royal marriages was discovered when Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced the recovery of a part of a limestone block depicting Tutankhamun and his wife, Ankhesenamen, along with text. These identify both Tutankhamun and his wife, Ankhesenpaaten, as "children of the king's body" or the biological son and daughter of Akhenaten.

From Reign (part in bold removed)

In his third regnal year, the king changed his name from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun thereby reversing his father's Amarna revolution, Atenism, was now reversed. Akhenaten had attempted to supplant the traditional priesthood and deities with a god, Aten, who until then was considered minor. The ban on the old pantheon of deities and their temples was lifted. The traditional privileges were restored to their priesthoods, and the capital was moved back to Thebes with the city of Akhenaten abandoned. From Names:

He is depicted only once as a prince, on a block from Hermopolis, where he is called Tutankhwaten (twt-ˁnḫw-ỉtn). By the time of his enthronment, he was known as Tutankhaten (twt-ˁnḫ-ỉtn), which in Egyptian hieroglyphs is: 𓍹𓇋𓏏𓈖𓇳𓏏𓅱𓏏𓋹𓍺

Parentage:

Parentage
After years of speculation, an extensive DNA analysis publicized in February 2010 confirmed that Tutankhamun was the biological son of Akhenaten (formerly Amenhotep IV) and one of his sisters. (Although Tutankhamun's mother's remains have been positively identified, it is unclear whether they belong to Nebetah or Beketaten).

From the section on his family: The children's were interred with their father. The king's tomb contained two female fetuses interred in small coffins, but inscriptions give them no names other than "Osiris", a reference to rebirth in the next life. The 2010 DNA study confirmed that these stillborn girls were biological children of Tutanhkamun, and that their mother most likely corresponds to a badly preserved female mummy ("KV21A") discovered in KV21

From Exhibitions An excerpt from the site of the U.S. National Gallery of Art:

...55 objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun included the boy-king's solid gold funeral mask, a gilded wood figure of the goddess Selket, lamps, jars, jewelry, furniture, and other objects for the afterlife. This exhibition established the term 'blockbuster.' A combination of the age-old fascination with ancient Egypt, the legendary allure of gold and precious stones, and the funeral trappings of the boy-king created an immense popular response. Visitors waited up to 8 hours before the building opened to view the exhibition. At times the line completely encircled the West Building. FROM REIGN: –removed for want of significance

The "Restoration Stela" erected in the temple at Karnak expresses the pharaoh's thoughts of the changes brought about by Ahkenaten and the reasons for his reversals: The temples of the gods and goddesses ... were in ruins. Their shrines were deserted and overgrown. Their sanctuaries were as non-existent and their courts were used as roads ... the gods turned their backs upon this land ... If anyone made a prayer to a god for advice he would never respond – and the same applied to a goddess. "Now the gods and goddesses of the land are rejoicing in their hearts...the provinces all rejoice and celebrate throughout this whole land because good has come back into existence."