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The Jewels of Tutankhamun
In 1922, when Howard Carter unswaddled the Tutankhamun mummy, which had remained almost intact for 3300 years at the bottom of the Valley of the Kings, he discovered thousands of objects, including jewelry. Not all of them were worn by the mummy: some were simply placed on it, others entangled in the endless linen strips wound around it. It would seem that very few of them were actually worn by Tutankhamun during his lifetime. They were not there to look pretty, or to leave a testimony: like the other objects, they ensured his passage to the great hereafter.
The Tutankhamun Collection / Jewelry and Ornamentation
Exhibit of Tutakhamun's jewels
Tutankhamun's burial jewellery
The pectoral is a kind of ornament that was very popular or common with Egyptian burials, and they have been found in a large number of varieties. Tutankhamun's tomb had a number of these and there either used within his mummy bindings or found within chests in the Treasury. Most have a dorsal ornament which hung down the back, acting as a counter weight and also as a fastening. This piece is built using gold, silver and semi-precious stones.

Tutankhamun Jewellery

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About Egypt. (n.d.). Tutankhamun Jewellry [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/7axnCYWJPAc
Egyptology and Archaeology through Images. (n.d.).Tutankhamun's burial jewellery.. http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/cairo%20museum/cm,%20tutankhamun%20mask/pages/tut_article.htm
My Agenda. (2019, March 26). The jewels of Tutankhamun. The French Jewelry Post. https://www.thefrenchjewelrypost.com/en/mon-agenda/the-jewels-of-tutankhamun/#:~:text=Of%20the%20150%20jewels%20found,of%20materials%20used%20in%20particular.
Tour Egypt. (n.d.). The Tutankhamun collection / jewelry and ornamentation. http://www.touregypt.net/museum/tutc.htm

HSIE - History - Year 8 - Ancient Egypt: Jewellery

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Tutankhamun Jewellery

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