Pharaohs Of The Sun

Tutankhamen wearing a nemes headdress

Reign of Tutankhamen, 1332 - 1322 B.C.
Sandstone; h. 29.6 cm, w. 26.5 cm
Gift of Miss Mary S. Ames.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911 11.1533

It is unclear who ruled Egypt immediately after Akhenaten's death; Nefertiti may even have been pharaoh for a brief period. But within a few years, the young Tutankhamen, Akhenaten's son-in-law and possibly also his son, was on the throne. He soon abandoned Amarna and the worship of Aten, reinstating the traditional deities and beginning the restoration of the monuments and temples of Amen, the powerful god of Thebes. Tutankhamen died when he was less than twenty years old and was buried in the Valley of the Kings, where his tomb was discovered in l922.


		Tutankhamen wearing a nemes headdress Reign of Tutankhamen, 1332 - 1322 B.C. Sandstone; h. 29.6 cm, w. 26.5 cm Gift of Miss Mary S. Ames. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1911 11.1533 It is unclear who ruled Egypt immediately after Akhenaten's death; Nefertiti may even have been pharaoh for a brief period. But within a few years, the young Tutankhamen, Akhenaten's son-in-law and possibly also his son, was on the throne. He soon abandoned Amarna and the worship of Aten, reinstating the traditional deities and beginning the restoration of the monuments and temples of Amen, the powerful god of Thebes. Tutankhamen died when he was less than twenty years old and was buried in the Valley of the Kings, where his tomb was discovered in l922.