good biography of King Tut
Back around 2003, we had read four of the "Who Was..." biographies for young children from Grosset and Dunlap, noting that they are not written from a "Christian" perspective but are fairly easy reading and give a reasonably good overview of the lives of each subject. A few years later, we were in Chicago, IL, for a vacation and visited several of the museums there . The King Tut exhibition was at the Field Museum. We did not see it because of the additional extra cost, but many of the other museums had special Egyptian exhibits and displays as well to coincide with it, and I picked up a couple of books for young people on ancient Egypt.
Who Was King Tut? was one of them, and I found it very interesting. I did not know that Tut was believed to have been the son of Amenhotep IV (also known as Akhenaten) who tried to introduce monotheism to Egypt and possibly his famous Egyptian queen Nefertiti (although his mother may have been one of Amenhotep's lesser wives). The book explains what little we know or can safely conjecture about King Tut (he was married at ten, may have had two children since two little mummies were buried with him, and died at around age nineteen) and the story of finding his tomb. If your children enjoy studying about ancient Egypt, this would be a welcome addition. There are now some 23 books in this series.
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