Contents  Who was Tutankhamen? Who was Tutankhamen?  What is mummification? What is mummification?  What were hieroglyphics used for? What were hieroglyphics used for?  Glossary Glossary Click to return to contents.

Who was Tutankhamen? Tutankhamen became king when he was only 9 years old. Tutankhamen died suddenly when he was 19 years old. His tomb was discovered by a man called Howard Carter.tomb Ay one of his advisers/guardians became pharaoh straight after Tutankhamen died.pharaoh CAT scans in 2005 revealed that the king was about 5 foot,8 inches tall.

A mummy is the body of a person that has been preserved after death. After Tutankhamen died he was mummified and placed in a sarcophagus. It took a very long time to mummify someone body from start to finish. To have someone mummify you would cost you a lot of money. Click here for video During the process of mummification the embalmer would all the insides out and put them in canopic jars. What is mummification?

What were hieroglyphics used for? There were no vowels in Egyptian Hieroglyphs only consonants, so ‘Egyptians are Cool’ without vowels would be ‘Gyptns r Cl’ !!! The Egyptians used hieroglyphics to write with. Hieroglyphics were a form of pictures and symbols. Egyptian hieroglyphs could be written in both directions - right to left or left to right. Sometimes scribes used a faster short form of hieroglyphics on papyrus called hieratic.

Glossary Canopic jars: a canopic jar is a pot for the organs in the process of mummification Embalmer: Papyrus: Is a paper like material that egyptians used to write on Pharaoh: A pharaoh is someone who is in charge Sarcophagus: is a tomb with jewels on Tomb: A tomb is where they put people after the mummification process