Жизнь Тутанхамона

Tutankhamen

Came to the throne at the age of about 10 years. After it was ruled by the elderly courtier Ay and General Horemheb.The child was named Tutankhaton, after the name of the God Aten culting by his father Akhenaten. But after his father's death and the abolition of this cult, took the name Tutankhamun.

From the text of the large stele erected in his name at Karnak, it is known that the first three years after accession to the throne, Tutankhamun continued to move along with the court in Akhetaton. Not later than the 4th year of his reign, Tutankhaton changed his name and became henceforth known as Tutankhamen, and Queen Anhesenpaaton (right. Angas-pas-Yati, "she Lives for Aten"), respectively, changed her name to Ankhesenamun (right. Angas-n-Aman, "she Lives for Amun"). Thus, during the reign of Tutankhamun, a policy of restoration of the cults of the old gods. One of the secondary names of Pharaoh proclaimed it a "Satisfying the gods"

When Tutankhamun was carried out enhanced recovery abandoned during the reign of Akhenaten sanctuaries of the gods, not only in Egypt, but in the score — for example, temples in cave (Gammatone) and Farace. But later Horemheb destroyed the cartouches of Tutankhamun, replacing them with your own, and captured the monuments of his reign.

After 9-year rule before the age of 20 years, Tutankhamen, apparently struck by an unidentified illness, has died. There is an assumption that Tutankhamen was murdered. There is also a version that he fell from the chariot and died from complications after injuries.