Discovering Tut Question answers, Hornbill NCERT

Ans. Howard Carter was a British archaeologist. It was he who discovered Tut’s tomb and removed Tut’s mummy to investigate it. His efforts saved Tut’s mummy from robbers and thieves who might have destroyed it to extract its golden adornments.

Ans. King Tut, it was found, was the last hair of a powerful dynasty of rulers in ancient Egypt. He died young in mysterious circumstances. The discovery of his mummy arose the interest among people as to how he died.

Ans. On 5th Jan 2005, Tut’s mummy was subjected to a CT Scan to probe the so far unsolved mysteries related to the young ruler’s life and death, who died more than 3300 years ago.

Ans. The tourists from far and near had come to pay their respects. They gazed at the murals on the walls of the burial chamber and peered at the gilded face of Tut. Some visitors read from the guide while others stood silently.

Ans. The content of Tut’s tomb included the richest royal collection of gold, in addition to everyday things of use like board games, a bronze razor, linen undergarments, cases of food and wine, etc.

Ans. Zahi Hawass, who was the secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities was relieved because he was under great pressure that something might go wrong. After a successful operation, he was relieved of tension.

Ans. It was believed that the pharaoh’s curse was that misfortune would befall upon all those who would disturb his eternal sleep. The dark sky and the stormy wind were thought to be ominous on Jan 5, 2005, when Tut’s body was being taken out for a CT scan.

Ans. Funerary treasures in Tut’s tomb included numerous artefacts in gold, things of daily use like oils, food, wine, clothes, board games, etc. They tell us that people in ancient Egypt believed in life after death.

That was why they buried these things with the dead persons so that they might not have to face any problem in absence of the things, they loved when they come to life again.

Ans. Carter wanted to separate the mummified body of Tut from the gold coffin when he tried to do so, he found that the body had cemented to the coffin due to the hardening of ritual resins applied to the body.

Ans. Carter exposed Tut’s mummy to the blazing heat of the desert sun for a house in an attempt to cut it off naturally from the coffin. He used a chisel to separate it from the coffin finally. In so doing, he cut off all the joints of the body, including its head.

Ans. When an anatomy professor X-rayed Tut’s mummy some 40 years after its discovery, he revealed that beneath the resins over the mummy’s chest, breast, bones, and front ribs were missing.

Ans. Ray Johnson rightly described Akhenaten meant the servant of the Aten, the sun disk. He wanted to promote the worship of the Aten. He shocked the people by smashing the images of Amen, a major that got and closed his temples. In another crazy move, he shifted his religious capital from the old city of Akhenaten known now as Amarna.

Ans. The mummy was scanned from head to toe. Zoo digital X-ray images were taken. The head was scanned in 0.62 nm slices to probe the secret of his death. These images finally established that nothing had seriously gone wrong. Tut’s death was natural.

Ans. Technology has now advanced considerably with C.T. Scan, hundreds of X-rays, are put to create a three-dimensional view. It has improved forensic analyses greatly.