After 3,300 Years, King Tut’s Coffin Leaves His Tomb For The First Time Ever.
The Egyptian Museum in Mississauga holds in trust for Canada and the World a chronological statement for the ancient history of Egypt over the past 7000 years.
This place full of history is to pay homage to eternal Ancient Egyptian, Coptic and Islamic Identical Replicas.
The Egyptian Museum has made Mississauga one of the Canadian hubs for Pharaonic and Coptic history and a must-visit place for Canadians. The Museum and The Cultural Centre aims at taking grasp of the diversity of Egypt’s heritage of monuments and arts needed to be shown in one place in one location to maintain and preserve this huge legacy.
The Museum holds a large collocetion of King Tutankhamun.
King Tut
One of the most fascinating kings that ruled in the Egyptian history. Not known for his military campaigns or his expeditions to exchange goods, but for his –almost intact – collection found in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922.
He was an Egyptian Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled approx. 1332 BC – 1323 BC in). He is popularly referred to as King Tut. His name, Tut Ankh Amun, means “Living Image of Amun”. Referred to as the king of upper and lower Egypt, the lord of the two kingdoms and the son of the Sun God; God Ra.
Only 9 years old when he ascended the throne of the country, he is by far, the most famous king in Egyptian history due to his golden collection found inside his tomb.
The 1922 discovery made by Howard Carter of Tut Ankh Amun’s nearly intact tomb received worldwide press coverage. It sparked a renewed public interest in ancient Egypt, for which Tut Ankh Amun’s popular mask, now in Cairo Museum, remains the popular symbol.
Exhibits of artifacts from his tomb have toured the world. Tut Ankh Amun’s treasure is still attracting millions of visitors year after year. His collection is now on display at the second floor of the Cairo museum and consists of approx. 5,398 objects. Howard Carter himself spent nearly 10 years cataloging his find.
Excavations in Egypt still reveal new artifacts on daily basis belonging to different eras and different kings and queens. Egypt mania has widely spread around the world; of course with the help of King Tut Ankh Amun’s discovered treasure.
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The Mask of Tut Ankh Amun
Taken off of the mummy of the king, the mask is made out of solid gold. Weighing an astonishing 9 kilograms of pure gold. The eyes are inlaid with opaque quartz, Lapis lazuli and rock crystal. Plus the precious stones used like Turquoise and Coral.
After the mummification process is finished, a mask with the facial features of the king would be placed on the head. This is done so the soul would easily recognize the deceased.
The two Guardian Statues of Tut Ankh Amun:
These 2 statues represent King Tut Ankh Amun in his royal outfit. He is wearing an outstretched skirt; which was a fashion of that era, a wide collar, a head dress, with bracelets and sandals. The statues are made out of wood and then gilded. The eyes were inlaid with precious stones.
The Boats
During the ancient Egyptian civilization, they had two kinds of boats. One kind was for use on the Nile or at seas for different expeditions. The other kind was for funerary and religious proposes. Different materials were used for constructing boats like Cedar wood, Sycamore wood and Papyrus reeds. They put models of boats inside tombs as symbols of belongings deceased once owned. So they can enjoy having them in their after life.
The Golden Coffins
The mummy of the king was placed inside an anthropoid coffin made of solid gold. This inner coffin weighs a magnificent 120 kilograms of pure gold. The inner coffin was –again- placed inside a second coffin made of wood and gilded. Then both were resting inside a third coffin. All put in a bigger granite sarcophagus inside the tomb. This was done for protection purposes.
Anubis
The god of mummification represented here as a full recumbent jackal. Completely sculptured form wood with excellent details represented in the ribs, the claws and the joints of the anim