1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Hey, history fans, if you want a double dose of history, 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: here's a rerun for today, brought to you by Tracy V. Wilson. 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to this Day in History Class from how Stuff 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: Works dot com and from the desk of Stuff you 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: Missed in History Class. It's the show where we explore 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: the past one day at a time with a quick 7 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: look at what happened today in history. Hello, and welcome 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and it's November. 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 1: Archaeologist opened Kinghaman's tomb on the Stay in n He's 10 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: also known as King Tut and he was born around 11 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: thirty two b c. And ruled Egypt for nine years. 12 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team found the stairs 13 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 1: down into the tomb in the Valley of the Kings 14 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: about three weeks earlier. There had been numerous excavations in 15 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: this area at the end of the nineteenth century, and 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: a lot of archaeologists thought that everything notable that could 17 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: be found had already been found. A lot of these 18 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: excavations had also been at burial sites that had already 19 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: been plundered by grave robbers long before. But Tuton Common's 20 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:14,279 Speaker 1: reign came at a turbulent time in Egyptian history. His father, 21 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: i'm in Hotep the fourth was also known as Akanatn 22 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: because of his worship of the sun god ought in 23 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 1: and only that god Acnat, and tried to totally change 24 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: Egyptian cultural and religious life, and then after his death, 25 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: Egypt basically tried to put everything back the way it 26 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: had been before. That meant that after Tuton Common died, 27 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: he wasn't very well remembered because of his father's legacy 28 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: and his place within that legacy and the efforts to 29 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: undo all of it later. Pharaoh's basically wrote him out 30 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: of history, but that may have offered his tomb some 31 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: protection from looters. It wasn't very well documented, so people 32 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: didn't know to go and rob it. When he discovered 33 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: the plastered door to the tomb, which was still sealed, 34 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: Howard Carter ordered everything to be filled back in, and 35 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: he sent a message to his patron, George Herbert, the 36 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: fifth Earl of Carnarvon, who was paying for this whole expedition, 37 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: and told him quote a wonderful discovery in the valley, 38 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: a magnificent tomb with seals intact. They all waited for 39 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: him to get there, to actually see the thing that 40 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: he was paying to be excavated opened up for the 41 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: first time. They were joined by both British and Egyptian observers, 42 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: and what they found was exactly what they hoped was 43 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,839 Speaker 1: behind that door, an intact tomb, still filled with its 44 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: original grave goods, including jewelry and statues and beads and 45 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: baskets and musical instruments, just thousands of objects, some of 46 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 1: them very ornate and valuable. This tomb of Tuton Common 47 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 1: is actually the smallest one in the Valley of Kings, 48 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: possibly because he died suddenly at a very young age, 49 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: but it's also possible that he was buried in a 50 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: two that was being planned for the man who wound 51 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: up being his successor. It's not totally clear regardless, though, 52 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: because it had not been plundered like all these other 53 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: grave sites had, it turned out to be a major, 54 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: major fine in spite of its small size. The door 55 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: to the burial chamber itself was open to the following February, 56 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: which also led the team to the treasury adjacent to it. 57 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: It took Carter almost a decade to catalog everything that 58 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 1: he had found there. Today, most of the tomb's contents 59 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: are in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which is also 60 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: where the beard of the mask of King Tutenhaman was 61 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: accidentally broken off in that made headlines because it had 62 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: been clumsily reattached and later had to be repaired and restored. 63 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: The Grand Egyptian Museum, which is still under construction as 64 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: of this recording, is planned to exhibit every object of 65 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: the tomb, some of which have never been on display 66 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: before now. In the decades since this tomb was discovered, 67 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: a number of teams have tried to find any still 68 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: unearthed areas of the tomb, with speculation going back and 69 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: forth about whether or not there are hidden chambers that 70 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: have not been found yet, with the most recent announcement 71 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: coming in mayen that no, there are not. That means 72 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: one of the things they had thought they might find 73 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: there is probably not there, which is the tomb of 74 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 1: never t d who was one of the other wives 75 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: of Tuton Common's father Akonatin. You can learn a bit 76 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:37,039 Speaker 1: more about this in the septemberisode of Stephie miss in 77 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 1: History Class called Who was King tut Anyway, thanks to 78 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: ksey p Graham and Chandler Mayze for their audio work 79 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: on this show. You can subscribe to This Day in 80 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: History Class on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, and wherever else 81 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts, and you can tune in tomorrow 82 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: for another of this month's assassinations.