Why did King Tut have so much gold in his tomb?
Why did King Tut have so much gold in his tomb? The pharaohs of Egypt insisted on being buried in gold, which they believed was the flesh of the gods. Consider the tomb of Tutankhamun. The boy-king was enshrined in three gold coffins.
Which tomb has the most gold?
The staggering amount of gold found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, the only ancient Egyptian royal burial to have been found in a relatively intact state, illustrates almost unfathomable wealth, but Egyptologists suspect that the kings who ruled into middle or old age were accompanied into the next life with even more ...