Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun was an insignificant ruler born at a very exciting time. His Father was Akhenaten, the heretic Pharaoh, who tried to break away from the confines of the old religion and establish a new religion, with himself as sun-god. He moved his capital city away from the old capital at Thebes, and set up a new city 100 miles to the north at Armarna. However on his death, all his ideals were zealously abandoned, the capital was moved back to Thebes, the old gods were re-established - and his son, Tutankhamun, at the time only a boy of 9, was set on the throne.
Tutankhamun only ruled for 9 years before dying an untimely death in 1323 BC. A private tomb in the Valley of the Kings was adapted for the royal burial. Shortly after his death the tomb was broken into and disturbed, and many portable objects and jewels were removed, but the larger objects where perforce left behind. Later the entrance was covered over by huts used by workmen building the much grander tomb of one of his successors, Ramesses VI. The site was completely lost, but in 1922 it was rediscovered by the English archaeologist, Howard Carter, after a long search, lasting over 10 years.