There was such a king in Egypt who was judged to have made the greatest contribution of his life to be buried at a young age. But his mausoleum is not in the pyramids, but in a place on the west bank of the Nile called the Valley of the Kings, which is the world-famous tomb of Tutankhamun.
If the Egyptian pyramids are like the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, they symbolize the ambition of a certain Egyptian pharaoh. I personally feel that the Valley of the Kings is a better reflection of the prosperity of that great empire. The tombs in the Valley of the Kings are all excavated along the mountain, where 64 pharaohs and their families of Egypt's new dynasty are buried, and any of these mausoleums were coveted by countless tomb thieves. Some mausoleums were stolen less than a decade after they were closed, and the more famous ones were even stolen hundreds of times. But even under such a strong excavation, a mysterious mausoleum survived, but its discovery was a coincidence.
In 1917, after Lord Carnarvon of England obtained the excavation rights in the Valley of the Kings, he hired Howard, a well-known figure in Egyptian archaeology. Carter served as captain and began a treasure hunt in the Valley of the Kings. But the Valley of the Kings has stood here for thousands of years, and it is not easy to find a pharaoh's tomb that has not been stolen. The team dug for five years without finding anything until the leader had only one month left in his appointment, dug up an inconspicuous cliff and stumbled upon a bluestone staircase leading underground, ending at the tomb of Tutankhamun, which had never been stolen. The reason why Tutankhamun's tomb was not stolen was entirely because it was too small and inconspicuous, and the entire tomb together was not as large as two rooms and one hall. However, in stark contrast to the small and simple burial chamber, where various rare treasures and a huge and exquisite sarcophagus used by Tutankhamun during his lifetime are stacked, and there are as many as 5,000 special cultural relics alone, which is completely an ancient Egyptian museum.
This sarcophagus is layered like a Russian matryoshka doll, and inside is a coffin more than two meters, covered with gold leaf. Inside the coffin is a blinding gold coffin inlaid with ornate gemstones, and the innermost part is the golden mask of the pharaoh that caused a sensation and the body of Tutankhamun. This mask looks exactly like Tutankhamun's real person, and even the subtle notches on it restore the scars on Tutankhamun's face, which can be said to be fine. Of course, its value is also worthy of the craftsman's effort, and in the latest ranking of the world's top ten treasures, this gold mask is valued at $10 trillion, and it is properly voted the world's first. However, many people said that even if they could afford $10 trillion, they would not dare to bring it home, because Pharaoh's curse was too scary.
It turned out that the people involved in the excavation at that time had seen a curse of the undead on the box outside the sarcophagus, and originally everyone did not take it seriously, but at the moment the tomb door opened, the shadow of death seemed to really come. The first was the mysterious death of Lord Carnarfon, who financed the event. A series of deaths began, and the 22 workers in charge of the excavation all died mysteriously in a few years, and the leader Carter hired archaeologist Mais to participate in the tidying up of the tomb, and as a result, Mais also died of a sudden high fever while working. Because the cause of death of these people could not be found, the theory of Pharaoh's curse intensified, and finally became a world mystery. But in fact, the strangeness of Tutankhamun's tomb is not only the curse of the pharaoh.
A recent radar survey around Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings revealed that a larger tomb appears to be hidden behind the wall of Tutankhamun's tomb, where Tutankhamun's stepmother, the famous Egyptian queen Nefertiti, is buried. More experts deduced that the countless valuable treasures in Tutankhamun's tomb were not actually Tutankhamun's, but Nefertiti was originally going to leave to herself, what was going on?
It turned out that Tutankhamun died at the age of eighteen, and some experts found a scar on his forehead, so they suspected that Tutankhamun was killed by a heavy object on the head. But the latest instrument scans show that the scars on Tutankhamun's head are only postmortem injuries caused by gravediggers. So experts collected image information from his whole body, and finally restored Tutankhamun's true appearance. This supposed amorous young pharaoh is an image of convex teeth, fat breasts and buttocks, one leg long and one leg short, and because of long-term inversion of toes, he had to put on crutches very early.
And the culprit of all this turned out to be a custom that has been circulating in Europe for a long time: marriage between close relatives. Tutankhamun's mother was the elder pharaoh and the half-sister of Akhenaten. The true cause of Tutankhamun's death also verifies this. He actually died of an infectious complication caused by a fall, which is easy for ordinary people to avoid, but it is undoubtedly a fatal blow to Tutankhamun, who is already plagued by vicious diseases and suffers from family diseases.
Nefertiti is the sister of the previous pharaoh Akhenaten, and legend has it that Nefertiti was not only beautiful, the first beauty of ancient Egypt, but also ruled briefly as a pharaoh. But after assisting Tutankhamun, she suddenly disappeared. Her tomb has not been found in the Valley of the Kings, where the pharaoh is buried, nor in the Valley of the Queen. Therefore, it is believed that the suspected tomb found this time is the resting place of Nefertiti. Even many experts feel that the countless valuable treasures in Tutankhamun's tomb are not actually Tutankhamun's, but Nefertiti was originally going to leave for herself.
Because from a conventional point of view, most of the tombs of the two neighboring pharaohs are buried nearby. As Tutankhamun's mother, Nefertiti also served as a pharaoh, and it is very likely that she will be buried with Tutankhamun. I wanted to be the empress Wu Zetian, but also because she made too many enemies in the imperial court and did not dare to rebuild the mausoleum in the name of the Son of Heaven, she chose to be buried with her husband. And the pharaoh's mausoleum usually appears on the left side of the tomb path, the queen's tomb is usually on the right side of the tomb path, and Tutankhamun's tomb is precisely on the right side of the tomb path. This shows that Tutankhamun's tomb was originally designed for a woman. That's why people think that this tomb was originally left by Nefertiti to herself.
In order to protect the sky-high frescoes in the tomb, the Egyptians decided not to smash open the northern tomb for the time being. So we have no way to confirm the veracity of this speculation. However, a sculpture can answer the real appearance of this ancient Egyptian version of "Wu Zetian". The statue was discovered in Egypt by German archaeologists in 1912 and was painted for herself during Nefertiti's reign. Except for a slight mutilation of the left eye, it is almost intact.
Even after 3,300 years, the beauty of this woman is still breathtaking. Germany and Egypt fought for a century, and Egyptians are still angry when they come to the Berlin Museum. Researchers tried to decipher Nefertiti's true appearance, and found that inside the statue there was an inverted human face, and under the simulation, the queen was just an ordinary appearance with flat cheekbones. There are pimples on the face and wrinkles at the corners of the mouth, which can be said to be very different from the flawless face on the statue, and Nefertiti is really "deceived".