Beyond this chamber was another containing gold beds and more
inlaid boxes and alabaster vases. Beyond this again there was a third chamber which may be the actual tomb of the king. The name of the king was Tutankhamen of the XVIIIth Dynasty, who lived more than three thousand years ago. Little is known about him except that he claimed to be a son of the famous Amenhotep III. and that he married the daughter of the Pharaoh Akhenaten who revolutionized Egyptian religion. The new worship of the sun which Akhenaten inaugurated was a kind of monotheism. Akhenaten also led a notable artistic revival. Apparently, Tutankhamen reverted to the traditional religion. Let us hope that the new discoveries will tell us more about these drastic and rapid changes of religion. If they do the latest discoveries will be even more memorable than they already seem to be.
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