Atlantis and the Ten Plagues of Egypt: The Secret History Hidden in the Valley of the Kings (30 page)

Tutankhamun’s solid gold death mask which covered the face of the mummy. (
Cairo Museum.
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The face depicted on the middle coffin is completely unlike Tutankhamun as he is depicted elsewhere – for instance, on the death mask. The cheekbones are more pronounced, the jaw is firmer and broader, the lips are less full and the nose is not so long. (
Cairo Museum.
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The Treasury of Tutankhamun’s tomb, where the figure of the jackal god Anubis guarded the splendid Canopic shrine. (
Griffith Museum.
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Close up of one of Tutankhamun’s Canopic coffinettes which were of identical design to the middle coffin. (
Cairo Museum.
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One of the four Canopic coffinettes which contained Tutankhamun’s removed internal organs. They were clearly part of the same burial equipment that had been made for another king. (
Griffith Institute.
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The interior of one of Tutankhamun’s Canopic coffinettes, showing the inscriptions revealing that they were originally made for Tutankhamun’s brother and predecessor, Smenkhkare. (
Griffith Institute.
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The only known statue of Smenkhkare as pharaoh, showing the same facial features as depicted on Tutankhamun’s middle coffin and his Canopic coffinettes. Like Akhenaten, he is depicted with female breasts. (
The Lovvre, Paris.
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Two statuettes of Tutankhamun, showing his distinctive, soft features, so different from the figure depicted on the middle coffin and Canopic coffinettes. (
Cairo Museum.
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The carved limestone tablet found during excavations of the Great Temple of Amarna in 1933. It appears to show Akhenaten and Smenkhkare as co-regents. (
Cairo Museum.
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The painted slab found at Amarna in the early 1900s which shows Smenkhkare and Meritaten reigning alone as king and queen. (
Berlin Museum.
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One of the many Great Temple reliefs in which the eyes have been gouged from Kiya’s image by her arch-rival Meritaten. (
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
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Scene from Tutankhamun’s golden throne, showing the king and his queen, Ankhesenpaaten, beneath the rayed symbol of the Aten. (
Cairo Museum.
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A typical domestic scene of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their infant daughters embracing one another. No other Egyptian pharaoh ever allowed himself to be depicted in such an intimate manner. (
Berlin Museum.
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