Today is the 99th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. I am not sure what that means, but the little kid in me thinks it is very cool.<\/p>\n
Given that the young king died in 1323 BC, I don’t think he would have been all that impressed with the hoopla that formed around him in modern times. I am guessing it all would have seemed very strange to him.<\/p>\n
After all, there is no logical reason that the death of a ruler who lived and died more than thirty three centuries ago should have created such a powerful mystique. But maybe that’s the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today is the 99th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. I am not sure what that means, but the little kid in me thinks it is very cool. Given that the young king died in 1323 BC, I don’t think he would have been all that impressed with the hoopla that … Continue reading “King Tut revisited”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23804,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23803\/revisions\/23804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}