143b: Fun and Fashion

When archaeologists opened the tomb King Tut'ankhamun, they found many of his childhood possessions inside. Today, we can get a sense of his life by looking at his games, toys, and clothes.

• Date: c. 1353 – 1340 BCE.
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• YouTube: Dr. Irving Finkel plays the Royal Game of Ur with Tom Scott. Dig It with Raven plays the Royal Game of Ur in Two Parts (Part 1 and Part 2).
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Select Bibliography:

•  Online Resources:
• Dr. Irving Finkel plays the Royal Game of Ur with Tom Scott (YouTube)
• Dig It with Raven plays the Royal Game of Ur, in Two Parts (YouTube Part 1; YouTube Part 2).
• Introduction to “Twenty Squares: An Ancient Board Game,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Introduction to “Senet and Twenty Squares: Two Board Games Played by Ancient Egyptians,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Nicholas Brown, “Mannequin of Tutankhamun,” ARCE.org (Website).
• Blog: Senet in the Book of the Dead (UCL).
• H. Carter, The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, Volume II (New York, 1927).
• H. Carter, The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, Volume III (London, 1933).
• H. Carter and A. C. Mace, The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, Volume I (London, 1923).
• G. M. Crowfoot and N. de G. Davies, ‘The Tunic of Tut’ankhamūn’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 27 (1941), 113–30.
• Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2nd edn, Cairo, 2017).
• M. Eaton-Krauss, The Unknown Tutankhamun (London, 2016).
• E. S. Edwards, Tutankhamun, His Tomb and its Treasures (New York, 1976).
• L. Finkel, ‘On the Rules for the Royal Game of Ur’, in I. L. Finkel (ed.), Ancient Board Games in Perspective: Papers from the 1990 British Museum Colloquium, with Additional Contributions (London, 2007), 16–32.
• M. Gabolde, Toutankhamon (Paris, 2015).
• Z. Hawass, Discovering Tutankhamun: From Howard Carter to DNA (Cairo, 2013).
• Z. Hawass and S. Vannini, Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb (London, 2018).
• N. A. Hoskins, ‘Woven Patterns on Tutankhamun Textiles’, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 47 (2011), 199–215.
• N. Kawai, ‘Studies in the Reign of Tutankhamun’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University (2005).
• P. A. Piccione, ‘The Egyptian Game of Senet and the Migration of the Soul’, in I. L. Finkel (ed.), Ancient Board Games in Perspective: Papers from the 1990 British Museum Colloquium, with Additional Contributions (London, 2007), 69–86.
• E. B. Pusch, ‘The Egyptian “Game of Twenty Squares:” Is it Related to “Marbles” and the Game of the Snake?’, in I. L. Finkel (ed.), Ancient Board Games in Perspective: Papers from the 1990 British Museum Colloquium, with Additional Contributions (London, 2007), 69–86.
• N. Reeves, The Complete Tutankhamun (Cairo, 1990).
• G. M. Vogelsang-Eastwood, Tutankhamun’s Wardrobe (Rotterdam, 1999).
• S. Wright, ‘12 Stunning Garments Re-created From Piles Of King Tut’s 3,400-Year-Old Laundry’, Ranker.com.

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