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A century of Tutankhamun
Nigel Fletcher-Jones reviews some of the recent books exploring what we know about Tutankhamun and the discovery of his tomb 100 years on.
In the Valley of the Kings, on Saturday 4 November 1922, Howard Carter wrote diagonally across his diary page, ‘Men found first step’.
Carter had a reasonable hope that this first step would lead down to the tomb of an obscure king of the 18th Dynasty (c.1550-1069 BC) who had been born with the name Tutankhaten (marking him as a member of the family of the ‘heretic’ pharaoh Akhenaten) and who, when he ascended the throne of Egypt, changed his name to Tutankhamun (‘the living image of Amun’) and restored the worship of the great god Amun-Re, who had been the particular target of Akhenaten. Nonetheless, due to his association with Akhenaten, even this changed name was systematic
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