1. Archeology to Recover the past: Ancient Egypt
Unit II Saunders

2. Outcome 2.10
Identify the methods used by archaeologists to recover the past.

3. Howard Carter

4. A British archaeologist
Most famous discovery in November 1922
King Tutankhamun’s tomb
King Tut or The Boy King

5. King Tut and King Akhenaten
King Tutankhamen was an Egyptian Pharaoh around 1334 BCE
Became Pharaoh at the age of 9
(Text pg. 101) The diary of Howard Carter – November 26, 1923
DNA proved him to be the son of Akhenaton.
Akhenaten (born Amenhotep IV) was the ruler circa 1351 – 1334 BCE – He forced a religious change when he moved the capital of Egypt from Thebes to Akhetaten.
New religion was monotheistic – worshiping only Aton – the sun God
Tut reversed Akhenaten’s religious reforms

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