King Tutankhamen or ( Tutankhamen ) ruled Egypt as pharaoh for 10 years until his death at age 19 . His father, pharaoh Akhenaten . King Tut was the grandson of the great pharaoh Amenhotep lll . Statue of king Tut fisherman hand painted replica statue made in Egypt . Height 21 cm depth 16.5 cm width 3 cm weight 345 grams . Tutankhamun ( / tut:Tenka:’mu:n/;alternatively spelled with Tutenkh-,-amen,-Amon;C.1341-C. 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty ( ruled c. 1332-1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom or sometimes the New Empire period. He has, since the discovery of his intact tomb, been referred to colloquially as King Tut. His original name, Tutankhaten, means”Living Image of Aten” while Tutankhamun means “Living Image of Amun”in hieroglyphs, the name Tutankhamun was typically written Amen -tut-ankh,because of a scribal custom that placed a divine name at the beginning of a phrase to show appropriate reverence. He is possibly also the Nibhurrereya of the Amarna letters, and likely the 18th dynasty king Rathotis who, according to Manetho, an ancient historian, had reigned for nine years - a figure that conforms with Flavius Josephus’s version of Manetho’s Epitome . The 1922 discovery by Howard Carter of Tutankhamun’s nearly intact tomb, funded by Lord carnavon, received worldwide press coverage. It sparked a renewed public interest in ancient Egyptian,for which Tutankhamun’s mask,now in the Egyptian museum, remains the popular symbol. Exhibits of artifacts from his tomb have toured the world. In February 2010, the results of DNA tests confirmed that he was the son of the mummy found in the tomb KV55, believed by some to be Akhenaten. His mother was his father’s sister and wife,whose name is unknown but whose remains are positively identified as “The younger Lady” mummy found in KV35. The deaths of a involved in the discovery of Tutankhamun’s mummy have been popularly attributed