The ORIGINAL Tomb of AKHENATEN | ATG Highlights

for regular videos on ancient cultures and forgotten civilizations Please Subscribe one of the highlights of the site of ancient aatan is the Royal tomb which lies off the main Valley in a side Valley sadly right after the tomb was discovered in the late 19th century it was heavily looted but some archaeological Treasures survived and can be found in museums around the world imagine what a radical move it was to relocate the burial ground to this place from the Valley of the Kings nor pole I'm ant the first Corridor running off the main passageway leads to an unfinished Suite of rooms it is generally thought that it was meant for aan natan's wife Queen Nefertiti but as it was never finished she probably was never buried here so you can see like a a tunnel here in the process of being hollowed out incomplete wow interesting that they they they dug up all here first before they did the bottom yeah yeah cuz it's more easy it's easier that way got it from the ceiling to the floor uhhuh and then [Music] wow [Music] Royal the next set of rooms leading off the main passage appears to have been finished and indications are that it belonged to aanan and Nefertiti's daughter the princess mecatan a piece of a sarcophagus bearing her name was found here but also some burial equipment of aan natan's mother Tia was found here so was she here too in the first chamber on the right wall you can see the remains of a relief showing the king queen and princesses in a temple worshiping the attin as it rises in the east on the left wall they worship the Aton as it sets in the west all around Are Soldiers chariots attendants and foreigners raising their arms in adoration of the Aon but most interestingly on the wall next to the entrance doorway there are two registers showing a funeral you can see on the bottom register the king and queen are Weeping over the dead body of of a girl probably the princess mecatan she's dead when she's died this is the one she used to take care of the baby the mid uhhuh and here if you look in the top of the head they doing like so it's like a wailing or this in the inent time it used to be when someone die like oh yeah part of yeah whing you don't normally see emotional scenes like this in King's tombs but aanan was different chamber two has no art but chamber three shows more scenes mourning the princess though they are poorly preserved [Music] [Music] we then made our way to aon's burial [Music] chamber this here was a trap so if you're coming along this way right uh and uh you come down those stairs they're actually original stairs under the old stairs or under the new stairs but they come in here this would probably would have been covered with something and then you walk on in it and boom you can't get any further cuz you're down in the right now there is a modern raised floor in the room maybe you can see the plinth in the middle of the room this is where the sarcophagus sat pieces of it were found as well as a canopic chest and 200 shop ferary figurines very little of the artwork survives the clearest scene is of aanat and Nefertiti worshiping the attin which is on the left as you enter the chamber [Music] I think Scholars are still trying to figure out why the artwork is so different