King Tutankhamun tells all!
Book - 2021
Young history buffs and celebrity fanatics alike will enjoy this humorous and irreverent introduction to King Tutankhamun written by Egyptologist and TV presenter Dr Chris Naunton. Readers hear first-hand from King Tutankhamun how he became the ruler of ancient Egypt at the tender age of nine, and what it was like to be rudely awakened from the afterlife by British Egyptologist Howard Carter in 1922.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Creative nonfiction
Biographies
Picture books - Published
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London ; New York :
Thames & Hudson
2021.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 47 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
- ISBN
- 9780500652558
- At the museum
- Hello, I'm King Tutankhamun
- Once upon a time in ancient Egypt
- How I become the boy king
- I rule
- My very early death
- My botched burial
- Packing for the afterlife
- Journey to the afterlife
- Dressed to impress
- Spiritual security
- Dining when dead
- Spells for a happy afterlife
- My tomb gets buried
- Howard Carter shows up
- Tomb raiders
- I become famous
- Up close and personal with King Tutankhamun
- Map of ancient Egypt
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Glossary
- Index