Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Chennai and the pharaohs of Egypt..

Pharoah Tutankhamun's tomb and his mummified body, 1352 BC
 Jayalalitha's funeral had a crowd of  6 lakhs at Marina beach, Chennai last evening.

Imagine what crowd would have gathered at the pyramid site on the banks of river Nile, Egypt in which the 18 year old boy King, Pharaoh Tutankhamen of the 18 th dynasty was buried in 1352 AD to live through history !!.

The 3350 year old mummified body (face illustrated) as found by Howard Cater in 1922 in Egyptian Nile banks  was covered by the pure golden mask as shown here ...

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