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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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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.

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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

When King Tutankhamen took the throne around 1350 B.C., the river had experienced centuries of gradual decline.

From New York Times Aug. 30, 2022

The tall stone slab includes a decree by Tutankhamen guaranteeing the protection of a high priest and dates to 1327 B.C.

From Washington Post May 27, 2022

Their cats are named like Tutankhamen or Mithridates.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

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