King Tut. The Boy King. Pharaoh. King of Upper and Lower Egypt. Regardless of how you choose to refer to the young man (I prefer King Tut), you will always strike interest in the minds of those you speak with.One thing is for certain. We don’t know a whole lot about him. We know that Egypt began to fail around the time he was born. The Egyptians lost battles, lost land, and was in economic turmoil. His Father and Mother were both Dead before his tenth birthday, leaving him with the throne. King Tut’s ‘senior advisor’, or Vizier, was a man named Aye, and because of the pharaoh’s young age, Aye pretty much ran things after the royal palace was moved back to Themes following King Tut’s father’s reign.King Tut was married, but oddly enough, to his half-sister, Ankhesenamun. Ankhesenamun was always displayed in loving poses with King Tut. She was caressing him, serving him, and in one scene, even holding his next arrow during a hunt. It was quite apparent that Ankhesenamun and King Tut where quite a pair.However, one of the Greatest mysteries surrounding King Tut is that even though the Egyptians took great time in recognizing the Pharaohs of the time, by marking their Cartouche in shrines, when you look at the walls, after Tut’s father, there is no KING TUT. Only in one great wall, in one great shrine, is there any reference of King Tut. Some places have a hollowed-out cartouche, as though it had been ‘erased’.Please let me explain a cartouche. The Egyptians carved their names in oval shaped blocks, called a cartouche. On the next page is an example of a Cartouche. Please forgive the commercial nature of this example. But why would the name be erased? King Tut’s reign of approximately 10 years did see some improvement in the stability of the nation. It’s not as though he was a poor leader that the Egyptian nation wanted to forget.I hope to use this...
