biography
| name: |
Tutankhamen or Tut'ankhamun
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pronunciation:
[tootankahmen, tootangka<
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| male
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| lived:
| (14th-c BC)
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| biography:
| Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (1361–1352 BC), the undistinguished son-in-law of the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaton. He came to the throne at the age of 12, and is famous only for his magnificent tomb at Thebes, which was discovered intact in 1922 by Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter. |
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