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

“We had almost made up our minds that we were beaten...,” he and archaeologist Arthur Cruttenden Mace wrote in The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen, their account of the expedition.

From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2022

Temporary and permanent exhibitions on three levels include the famous golden mask, among the 5,300 objects excavated from the tomb of Tutankhamen, the “boy king” who died at age 19 in 1325 B.C.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022

Among the artifacts in question is a pink granite stele bearing the seal of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2022

Their cats are named like Tutankhamen or Mithridates.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson