Class 11 English Core Hornbill PROSE Chapter - 3. DISCOVERING TUT: THE SAGA CONTINUES
Class 11 English Core Hornbill PROSE Chapter - 3. DISCOVERING TUT: THE SAGA CONTINUES प्रश्न बैंक - सह - उत्तर पुस्तक (Question Bank-Cum-Answer Book) Class 11 English Core Hornbill PROSE Chapter
- 3. DISCOVERING TUT: THE SAGA CONTINUES - A.R. Williams MAIN POINTS ☞ The chapter describes the boy king Tut. ☞ Tut was the last heir of a powerful Egyptian dynasty. ☞ The chapter describes how CT scan of Tut's mummy
revealed interesting facts about him. ☞ Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922 by an English
archaeologist Howard Carter. ☞ Carter began investigating the three nested coffins. ☞ The first coffin was opened. Carter found a shroud
decorated with garlands, willow, olive and lotus petals. ☞ The ritual resins had hardened. It left Tut cemented to
the bottom of his solid gold coffin. ☞ Tut's body was chiselled away from the coffin. ☞ Carter's men removed the mummy's head and severed
nearly every major joint. ☞ Today Computed Tomography, or CT scan creates a three
dimensional virtual body. ☞ Young Tutankhaten or King Tut ruled for about nine
years and then died unexpe…