9 Books for King Tut Day
It’s not the young King Tutankhamun’s birthday, rather November 4, 1922 was the day Howard Carter discovered King Tut’s tomb. I’ve always been fascinated with archeology and even fleetingly thought about being an archeologist. Funny enough, my brother actually is an archeologist!
There are dozens of books for kids about Ancient Egypt. Today, for this book list, I wanted to focus solely on King Tut. I think so many people find his story to be so interesting. He was somewhere between 8 and 9 years old when he became king. And he was only King for ten years before he passed away and was mummified. There is no clear decision on the cause of his death, but he had malaria disease and also had a compound fracture in his leg, and possibly other diseases.
There’s not a lot that is known about King Tut or his family. But kids can imagine what it might have been like to live in Ancient Egypt or a career choice in becoming an archeologist or Egyptologist.
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9 Books for King Tut Day
- The Curse of King Tut’s Mummy: How a Lost Tomb Was Found by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, illustrated by James Nelson
- The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb by Michael Burgan, illustrated by Barbara Schulz
- Discovering the Tomb of Tutankhamun by Roger Canavan, illustrated by Damian Zain
- Howard and the Mummy: Howard Carter and the Search for King Tut’s Tomb by Tracey Fern, illustrated by Boris Kulikov
- The Tomb of King Tutankhamen by Michael Woods, illustrated by Mary B. Woods
- Tutankhamen’s Gift by Robert Sabuda
- Tut’s Mummy: Lostā¦and Found by Judy Donnelly, illustrated by James Watling
- Who Was King Tut? by Roberta Edwards
- You Wouldn’t Want to Be Cursed by King Tut!: A Mysterious Death You’d Rather Avoid by Jacqueline Morley, illustrated by David Antram
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