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More than three thousand years after his death, the entire civilized world is familiar with the face...
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More than three thousand years after his death, the entire civilized world is familiar with the face and the last resting place of one young Egyptian ruler. His golden, jewelled mask gazes serenely out at us; its exquisite beauty and spiritual quality seeming to sum up all that was best about one of the Ancient World's most glorious and successful civilizations. It is assumed he died of natural causes, a sad but unavoidable fate. But is there a hidden story?In this account of the life and death of Tutankhamun, Paul Doherty reveals how the calm and beautiful mask conceals a story of bloody intrigue at the Egyptian court, resulting in sudden death, hurried burial and a crisis that threatened the very existence of the great Empire.
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