The tomb’s contents span a wide range of categories, including ceremonial furniture, religious objects, personal belongings, weaponry, clothing, chariots, and provisions for the afterlife. Despite Tutankhamun's relatively short reign and minor political significance compared to other pharaohs, the preservation and comprehensiveness of the tomb make the collection a central reference point in Egyptological study. The artefacts demonstrate both utilitarian and symbolic dimensions of royal life and death, reflecting syncretic themes of solar, Osirian, and Amarna-period ideologies.

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Mummy
As the central occupant of the tomb, the mummy of Tutankhamun's forms a critical and inseparable part of the overall collection. Though human remains are not artefacts in the conventional sense, the mummy holds immense historical and scientific value, both in its treatment during burial and in the information it has yielded since discovery. Adorned with gold fittings, amulets, and jewelry—many of which were fused to the body by embalming resins—it was enveloped in a complex assemblage of ritual objects, each selected for protection and rebirth. The body itself was significantly damaged during antiquity and later during the original excavation, when Carter’s team dismantled parts of it to retrieve embedded items. Subsequent scientific study, including DNA analysis and CT scanning, has contributed substantially to our understanding of Eighteenth Dynasty royal lineage and burial practices. Today, the mummy is preserved in situ in KV62 with conservation measures reflecting the ethical responsibility owed to human remains.

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Alabaster Chest and Canopic Jars
The alabaster canopic chest of Tutankhamun, now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (JE 60687), is considered a masterpiece of royal funerary craft. Crafted from a single block of alabaster, the chest is divided internally into four cylindrical compartments, each of which originally contained a miniature coffin topped with a lid carved to resemble the king’s head (inspect). Each corner of the chest features a goddess—Isis, Nephthys, Neith, and Serket—rendered in high relief, their outstretched arms serving as eternal guardians over the sacred contents. These miniature coffins, fashioned from gold and adorned with colored glass, carnelian, and other semi-precious materials, housed the viscera of the king, encapsulated in linen wrappings and unguents that had hardened to fix them in place. The craftsmanship of the lids, with detailed features mimicking Tutankhamun’s portrait, closely resembles that of the larger funerary coffins, making them miniature analogues of the king’s own protective vessels. Created during the late Eighteenth Dynasty (circa 1332–1323 BCE) and discovered in tomb KV62, this chest exemplifies the sophistication of New Kingdom royal burials and the integration of religious iconography into the design of ritual storage for the pharaoh’s internal organs.

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Quartzite Sarcophagus
The rectangular quartzite sarcophagus held three anthropoid coffins in nested form, the outer two wooden and gold-covered, and the innermost made of solid gold. The sarcophagus features protective deities—Isis, Nephthys, Neith, and Serqet—carved in raised relief at each corner with outspread arms. Its lid, made of pink granite and painted yellow, was cracked during antiquity, possibly during tomb robbery or early seal-breakage. It was placed centrally in the burial chamber beneath the nested shrines.

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Gold Coffins
Tutankhamun was interred within three nested anthropoid coffins, the innermost made of solid gold and the outer two of wood sheathed in gold leaf and inlaid with semi-precious stones, colored glass, and resin. The inner coffin weighs approximately 110.4 kilograms and depicts the king in divine form, holding the crook and flail, with inlaid eyes and details in lapis lazuli, obsidian, and quartz. The middle and outer coffins replicate this iconography but include additional inscriptions from mortuary texts. All three coffins were encased within the quartzite sarcophagus and nested shrines in the burial chamber.

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Golden Throne
The golden throne is a wooden armchair overlaid with gold and silver leaf, inlaid with faience, colored glass, and semi-precious stones. The backrest features a detailed repoussé scene of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun beneath the rays of the Aten, indicating continued Amarna artistic influence. The armrests are flanked by uraei wearing the double crown, and the legs terminate in lion's paws. The throne was discovered in the antechamber, damaged from looters attempting to remove its inlays.

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Outer Golden Shrine
The outermost of four gilded wooden shrines encasing the sarcophagus, this structure nearly filled the burial chamber and was dismantled in situ during excavation. It bears protective funerary texts, including early examples of the Book of the Heavenly Cow on its exterior and other ritual passages within. The shrine is decorated with finely chased scenes of deities and the king in ritual postures, and includes massive tenon joints and a double-winged door secured with cords and clay seal impressions.

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Funerary Gold Mask
Tutankhamun’s funerary mask is composed of over 10 kilograms of high-purity gold and inlaid with semi-precious stones including lapis lazuli, obsidian, quartz, turquoise, and carnelian. It depicts the nemes headdress with a cobra and vulture on the brow and features inlaid eyes of quartz and obsidian. The mask includes an inscription from Book of the Dead, Chapter 151b, invoking protective deities. It was found placed directly over the head and shoulders of the wrapped mummy inside the innermost coffin.

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Sandals
More than eighty pairs of sandals, including examples of reed, leather, bark, and gold, were discovered among the burial assemblage of Tutankhamun, and approximately a dozen of the most elaborate specimens are currently on display in Cairo. This particular pair of marquetry-veneered sandals, constructed from a wooden core overlaid with leather, bark, and gold foil, was recovered from the tomb of Tutankhamun and dates to the Eighteenth Dynasty during the reign of Tutankhamun (1333–1323 BCE). The soles are intricately inlaid with detailed depictions of bound captives (inspect), each representing one of the traditional enemies of Egypt, together with the Nine Bows above and below the bound figures, a conventional symbol for foreign adversaries. Placed beneath the royal feet, these images assert the king’s supremacy by signifying the trampling of Egypt’s foes. The sandals were assigned the register number JE 62685 in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and were recorded as Carter’s number 397 during the 1922–1923 excavations in Thebes.

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Wooden-Ivory Chest
The wooden chest known as the "Chest of Tutankhamun with Miniature Panoramas", now catalogued as JE 61467 in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, is a richly painted container measuring approximately 61 × 43 × 44.5 cm. All surfaces, including the lid, display miniature-scale hunting and combat scenes executed with exceptional detail. One panel illustrates Tutankhamun in his chariot hunting gazelles, deer, ostriches, and other desert species, while the opposite side portrays him engaged in lion hunts. The shorter ends depict the king as a sphinx trampling his northern and southern enemies—a visual metaphor of royal supremacy. The longer lateral faces present dynamic battle panoramas featuring highly organized formations of archers, lancers, cavalry, and fan bearers as the king’s chariot advances against enemies from Syria in the north and Nubia in the south. When discovered in KV 62, the chest contained ritual garments, necklaces, a headrest, a belt, and at least one pair of sandals. The sophistication of its iconography—precisely rendered ethnic features of Nubian and Asiatic foes juxtaposed with the ordered ranks of Egyptian forces—exemplifies New Kingdom artistic excellence and conveys potent symbolism of royal power and dominion.