HSIE - History - Year 8 - Ancient Egypt: Furniture

Because of its small scale (less than thirty inches high), this wooden chair was considered by Carter to have been used by Tutankhamun as a child. The death of the king at so young an age might have been the impetus for the inclusion among his funerary equipment of a number of items that were used during his early childhood. That would also explain the placement of a bracelet encrusted with a large lapis lazuli scarab among the personal objects stored in a chest in the Treasury.

King Tutankhamun, the pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,300 years ago, slept on the forerunner of our modern camping bed, according to a study presented at the latest international conference on the boy king in Cairo.