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NAZCA LINES ARK OF THE COVENANT PYRAMID
The Nazca Lines in Peru have
baffled mankind for quite a
long time–and now
The Ark of the Covenant is a The Egyptian pyramids were
the mystery is even more gold-covered wooden chest built as tombs for the country's
intriguing. They are a series of with lid cover containing the pharaohs to preserve their
enormous geoglyphs etched two stone tablets of the Ten bodies as they believed in an
into a roughly 200-square-mile Commandments. Whether afterlife. The ancient Egyptians
stretch of the desert. They are
it was destroyed, captured, saw the shape of
linked to the heavens with
some of or hidden–nobody knows. the pyramids as a method of
the lines representing One story suggests the ark providing new life to the dead,
constellations in the night eventually made its way to because the pyramid
sky. Ethiopia, in the town of represented the form of the
Aksum, in the St. Mary of physical body emerging from the
Zion cathedral. earth and ascending towards the
light of the sun.
 Whose tomb is this?

When was it found?

Who found it?

Why is it so important?
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discover
Discovering Tut: the Saga
Continues
A.R Williams
 Character List
Zahi Hawass Howard Carter

He is the British Archeologist who

discovered King Tut’s tomb in the
❑ Secretary General of Egypt’s
year 1922.
Supreme Council of Antiquities.
This discovery was sensational
❑ He is one of the members of the
as it was successful after years of
team of researchers, and very
futile searching.
particular about getting the
He was not able to separate the
details right.
body from the other belongings
❑ It also shows that he is extremely
buried along with the Kings body.
focused on this project as he
He justified his action of chiselling
exclaims that he was not able to
away the consolidated material
sleep thinking of the seriousness
from the body to raise the king’s
of this extraction and
remains.
reconstruction.
 Amenhotep III Amenhotep IV

✔ Successor of Amenhotep III.

✔ He promoted the worship
King Tut’s grandfather of Aten and changed his
name to Akhenaten.
who was a powerful ✔ Amenhotep IV also moved
pharaoh and ruled for the religious capital to
almost four decades. Akhetaten.
✔ He attacked the Amun, a
major God and smashed his
idols.
Tutankhaten
❖ Widely known as King Tut.
❖ He was just a teenager
when he became a ruler.
❖ He also changed his name
to Tutankhamun; reigned
for about nine years and
died unexpectedly.
❖ The speculation of his death
gave rise to exploration to
find the truth.
❖ His mummy became the
first one to be examined
using a CT scan.
 Theme of the story
It also he
lps you u
It is a descript in the fie nd
ion of the exp ld of arch erstand the revo
conducted by loration the mod aeology lution
a team of rese ern equi which is
It gives the ac archers. methods pment a due to
count of strug be n d sophistic
team faces to gles the results. T ing used to give ated
unravel the m h e story h a ccurate
the death of a ystery of the colla elps you
teenage ruler, borative to under
efforts o s
The story high
lights the chan
King Tut. member
s involve f all the t tand
methods of ar ge in the of King T d in this eam
chaeology fro u ti p r o ject. The
decades back m a few understa s extracted. You tomb
to the presen nd the co will also
modern techn t era of a concep ncept of
ology. It gives t in ancien life after
idea about th yo u an t hat you c t times wa death,
e kind of explo ould carr s
conducted in ration the new y all your thought
1922 by Carte life herea belongin
there was no r w h en fi lled with fte r. The tom gs to
modern meth b b was th
extract the re od to necklace elongings of King us,
mains. s, wines T u t like razo
use after which w rs,
death. ere for the
King to
The main focus is laid on the process of forensic reconstruction of
the remains to find the cause of death and the age when the king
died. The modern method of CT Scan is used and King Tut’s body
was the first to be put underscan. The scanner picked up images
of the King’s body and the anatomy was conducted much to the
relief of the team members.
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