Tutankhamun (Egypt)
−1332 · until −1323
Hebrew year: 2429 (ב׳תכ״ט)
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Tutankhamun came to the throne as a child after the collapse of his father Akhenaten's religious revolution and reigned for roughly a decade under the guidance of his officials. He abandoned Akhetaten, restored the worship of Amun, and changed his name from Tutankhaten to signal the reversal. Historically he was a minor king; his fame comes entirely from the discovery of his nearly intact tomb by Howard Carter in 1922. For a timeline of Israel his importance is as the closing of the Amarna episode and the return of Egypt to conventional religion and to active involvement in Canaan.
- Hebrew year
- 2429 (ב׳תכ״ט)
- Place
- Thebes (Luxor)
- Category
- Foreign rulers & empires
- Part of
- Conquest & Judges