Tutankhamun

<p>A child ascends a broken throne. Temples stand silent the gods' names scarred from stone and Egypt's borders feel the press of rivals. In <em>Tutankhamun: The Living Image</em> the boy who began as Tutankhaten and became Tutankhamun carries a nation's need to believe again.</p><p>Drawing on inscriptions art and modern medical analysis this book follows the young pharaoh from the aftershocks of Amarna to the careful choreography of restoration. We meet Ay and Horemheb-the elder statesman and the general-who speak policy in the king's name; Ankhesenamun the queen whose steadiness masks dynastic peril; and a court that learns to convert ritual into resilience. Here Tutankhamun is neither a hollow mask nor a miracle worker; he is a necessary presence-fragile visible indispensable-around which Egypt ties its world back together.</p><p>From coronation liturgies and temple economies to the intimate technologies of a life lived with pain <em>The Living Image</em> reveals how a civilization repaired itself by renaming a king and performing belief until belief became true. Gold dazzles; what endures is the courage of return.</p>