Key point 4 of 8 · Ancient Egypt
The New Kingdom: The Great Pharaohs
Tutankhamun's tomb, found nearly intact in ____ by Howard Carter, remains the principal source of what we know today about royal Egyptian funerary treasure.
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The New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE) began after the expulsion of the Hyksos by Ahmose I, founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and ushered in the period of greatest territorial extent and splendor in Egyptian history, with its main capital at Thebes.
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