Tutankhamen

Coffin of Tutankhamen, Cairo, Egypt. This is the third and innermost coffin of the pharaoh, made of solid gold. Tutankhamen is depicted as the Egyptian god Osiris holding a flail and crook.

King (pharaoh) of ancient Egypt of the 18th dynasty, about 1333-1323 BC. A son of Akhenaton (also called Amenhotep IV), he was about 11 at his accession. In 1922 his tomb was discovered by the British archaeologists Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor, almost untouched by tomb robbers. The contents included many works of art and his solid-gold coffin, which are now displayed in a Cairo museum.