Tutankhamun: The Life and Death of The Warrior Boy King. Part One Russell Jacquet-Acea 2020, Akhenaten and Biblical Joseph, Bringers of Monotheism to Egypt

https://www.academia.edu/43378534/Tutankhamun_The_Life_and_Death_of_The_Warrior_Boy_King_Part_One?rhid=43381231104&swp=rr-rw-wc-3253994&nav_from=985625fa-e215-410f-a8be-3f5375e85b53 Pharaoh Tutankhamun remains one of the most well-known Pharaohs of ancient Egypt. Born as “Tutankhaten”, historians are now realizing that when he took the throne at the age of 10, he became Egypt’s “Warrior Pharaoh”, dying in battle at age 19. Most commonly known as “King Tut”, he left no heir to the throne, built no structures of importance, made no contributions to Egyptian history and was buried in haste inside a small tomb not fit for a King. Yet Tut’s legacy is due to the discovery of his intact tomb that contained the most valuable collection of riches ever found. It was the discovery of the Millennium! When Howard Carter along with the Earl of Carnarvon discovered and entered the tomb on 27 November 1922, Carter breached a hole in the first door and stuck a candle in to see what was in there. “Details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, stange animals, statues and gold - ‘everywhere the glint of gold’ he later said. When Lord Carnarvon asked him ‘Can you see anything?’ Carter answered “Yes, wonderful things”. Tut’s” arrival on the scene came at a most tumultuous time in Egypt’s history. Tut’s grandparents Akhenaten and Nefertiti had turned Egypt’s religious and social world upside down with Akhenaten’s monotheistic attempt at Atenism and the banishment of the traditional gods of Egypt. The new city Akhenaten built and where Tut was raised was called “Akhet-Aten” meaning “The Horizon of the Aten” and must have been magnificent. However, this was all accomplished by the neglect of the Egyptian territorial lands up north Akhenaten’s ancestors had conquered. Their cries for help went unanswered as the powerful Hittite Empire, led by its warrior king Suppiluliuma swooped in and completely subdued previously held territories of Egypt north of Kadesh. When Akhenaten died Nefertiti’s attempt at a political solution to avoid war with the Hittites was a request to the Hittite King to send his son to her for marriage. That scheme failed when both were forced to disappear from the scene of life. Nefertiti suddenly died and the Hittite Prince Zannanza was assassinated. This caused an all-out war between Egypt and Hatti, a war that was in full fray when Tutankhamun took the throne as a young boy. It was during Tutankhamun’s reign that the first Habiru prisoners were brought to Egypt that began generations of enslavement. He was unfortunately handed the reigns of physically leading the war on the battlefield like his ancestors had done before him. Tut however, lacked the experience his ancestors had in battle and was defeated far away from home before being brought back to Egypt for a rushed burial. It was a most traumatizing disappointment to all of Egypt to have lost their young king. The solution from that point on was that Pharaoh, although old, had to be an experienced professional military man. Aya, Horemheb and Ramesses I followed Tutankhamun as aging warrior pharaohs in their fierce war against the Hittites, a war that would last until Ramesses II’s peace treaty with the Hittites in his Year 21, ca. 1258BC, some 66 years after Suppiluliuma had declared war on Egypt. Many decades-long held beliefs about Tutankhamun and this Atenist era will be re-examined, corrected and updated with additional present-day facts of Tutankhamun’s status as a Warrior King.