King Tut versus East Linn Museum

Archaeologist Howard Carter examines the innermost coffin of Tutankhamun, 1925. Wikiphotos

By Roberta McKern
For The New Era

 

Why King Tut?

The real topic is about legacies left behind to preserve the passage of time. King Tut, the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, reigned from 1332 to 1323 B.C.

He died young and was given a somewhat hasty burial in a borrowed tomb among other pharaohs’ resting places in the Valley of the Kings. His fame came from his having been located and dug up by British…

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