Nathan's Grandad Comes

Today Nathan's Grandad came and he talked a lot about ancient Egypt he talked about the 12 hours of darkness and the 12 monkeys and he mostly talked about Tutankhamen his original name was Tutankamun he was called Tutankamun because his father Amun which Amun was the King of the Gods. Howard Carter had found the entrance down to Tutankhamen's Temple right next to a small worker cavern but that took 5 years so Lord Carnavon gave Howard 1 more chance and he found it!

Tutankhamen was found in a Sarcophagus with wood covered with gold then there was more wood and more wood then... solid gold and under that solid gold was Tutankhamen. He looked kind of gold because he had been in the Sarcophagus more then 3,000 years so that's why he looked gold. First Howard had to dig all the way down to the end of the staircase then there was a limestone door so Howard and his workers had to break a small hole in the limestone and the first room was called the Anti-chamber which was the first chamber.

It was full of gold and wood things it had Tutankhamen's throne,his boy stool and gold and wood boxes full of jewelry. 

Tutankhamen was found in the Valley of the Kings where 30 other kings before him were buried. There was a sculpture of Isis on the gold/wood boxes it was like she was protecting it and if you didn't know Isis is a goddess. There was a box that all the origins and stuff like that were kept not the brain because Tutankhamen didn't need a brain for the Afterlife Egyptians thought the box had three Tutankhamen looking heads on top and you had to remove those to get to all the stuff inside.

Egyptians thought there was 12 hours of darkness before the kings would go to the Afterlife so they put 12 monkeys to protect the kings from that on the walls. Nathan's Grandad also told the Year 4's and me about how people were mummified but it's kind of disgusting so they pull out the brain with a hook and throw it in the trash and all the other things the Egyptians thought the kings didn't need for the Afterlife then they rapped them in bandages.

 In all the rooms in Tutankhamen's Temple it was full of boxes and pieces and pieces of gold if you gave a solid gold statue to the bank you would get 80 million dollars back! The End.