Tutankhamen

American  

[toot-ahng-kah-muhn] / ˌtut ɑŋˈkɑ mən /

Also Tutankhamon,

noun

1. 14th century b.c., a king of Egypt of the 18th dynasty.

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Tutankhamen British  

/ -mən, ˌtuːtənkɑːˈmuːn, ˌtuːtənˈkɑːmɛn /

noun

1. king (1361–1352 _bc ) of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. His tomb near Luxor, discovered in 1922, contained many material objects

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Tutankhamen Cultural  

1. A pharaoh, or king of Egypt (see also Egypt), who lived about 1400 b.c. His reign was relatively unimportant, but the discovery of his unplundered tomb in the 1920s is numbered among the great archaeological discoveries of all time.

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Tutankhamen is popularly known as King Tut.

Example Sentences

Koh said whatever was stored in these vessels was considered valuable enough to accompany Tutankhamen into the afterlife, and important enough that grave robbers were willing to risk an attempted theft.

From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2025

No curse was ever found written in hieroglyphics at the tomb of Tutankhamen, the Egyptian king who died at 18 or 19, around 1323 B.C.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022

“Details of the room emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold—everywhere the glint of gold,” Carter wrote in The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen.

From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2022

According to Le Monde, in 2019, a colleague of the Egyptologists alerted them that he had grown suspicious of the provenance of a Tutankhamen stele that ended up at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

From New York Times • May 26, 2022

Their cats are named like Tutankhamen or Mithridates.

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