Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. Infamous gunslinger John Wesley Hardin is pardoned after spending 15 years in a Texas prison for murder. Hardin, who was reputed to have shot and killed a man just for snoring, was 41 years old at the time of his release.
Hardin probably killed in excess of 40 people during a Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Latin America. Vietnam War. Sign Up. Cold War. Here, two life-size wooden statues of King Tutankhamun guarded his burial chamber. Within, they discovered the first intact royal burial ever to have been excavated by Egyptologists. This goes down a corridor to a second door. This doorway leads into an antechamber. A major treasure discovered in this room was a beautiful golden throne depicting the king seated while Ankhesenamun his wife rubbed ointment onto his shoulder.
Behind the antechamber lies the annex. This is the smallest room in the tomb. Nevertheless, it housed thousands of objects large and small. It was designed to store food, wine and fragrant oils. This room suffered the most from the attention of the tomb robbers. Four gilded shrines celebrating the young pharaoh surrounded the intricately decorated sarcophagus.
Combined, these treasures completely filled the room. The treasury was located just beyond the burial chamber.
The walls of this chamber were painted a bright yellow. This paint has survived thousands of years. Analysis of microbial growths on the paint revealed the tomb was closed while the paint was still wet. The wall murals were similarly brightly painted. They were over-scale and lacked some of the fine details found in other burials. This was another indication the king was buried in a hurry. The ritual Opening of the Mouth Ceremony is shown on the northern wall. This ceremony was pivotal in ancient Egyptian burial practises as they believed the dead ate in the afterlife and the only means to ensure this was possible was by performing this sacred ritual.
The Eastern Wall to the right of the Northern Wall depicts Tutankhamun being conveyed on a sled with a protective canopy to his tomb.
The Southern Wall, which was unfortunately badly damaged by Carter and his excavation team when they forcibly entered the room, shows King Tut together with Anubis , Isis and Hathor. The top left-hand corner shows Osiris in a boat with Ra the sun god. To the right are several other gods standing in a row. Twelve baboons representing the twelve hours of the night the king had to go through to reach the afterlife is positioned below the pictures of the gods. In radar scans of the tomb revealed evidence of a possible concealed room.
Additional radar scans, however, failed to show any evidence of a void behind a wall. The masterful and precise making of the mask leads some researchers to believe that the day period that the masters have between the death of the pharaoh and his burial would not be enough to make it.
For this reason, it is assumed that the mask was intended for someone else, probably Nefertiti, and the early and unexpected death of the pharaoh necessitated the replacement of the cartouche with the name of the ruler.
So far, there is no convincing evidence to support such a claim. The outermost sarcophagus which held the three golden was is massive, made of red quartzite, and is still in the tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Unlike the other two larger coffins, which are made of gilded carved wood, the innermost is made of kg. One of the most mysterious treasures of Tutankhamun is his iron dagger of unknown origin. The dagger has a handle with a mountain crystal and an exquisite golden scabbard decorated with floral motifs.
Legends tell that the iron from which the blade is made came from the stars as a heavenly gift to the Pharaoh. Studies have revealed an unusually high level of nickel and cobalt levels in the iron, which are found only in meteorites found in Egypt around the shores of the Red Sea. Similar sandals have been discovered in the tombs of other Egyptian pharaohs. As an additional fact, I would like to mention the role of sandal-bearer in ancient Egypt. However it may sound, this was an extremely important position to hold and it came with many important duties.
Of course, this particular finding cannot be considered exactly a treasure but it is an extremely important discovery for the life of Tutankhamun. For decades, information about the two miniature mummies was limited but nowadays, it is considered that the smaller child died around the 6th month of pregnancy while the larger child presumably died shortly after birth.
One of the most magnificent treasures of Tutankhamun was his golden throne. Like the majority of the treasures found in the tomb, the decorations of the throne are in the animal theme.
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