Tutankhamun

Born Tutankhaten around 1342 BC, he became pharaoh at roughly nine years old and immediately began dismantling his predecessor's religious revolution, restoring the old gods and changing his own name to Tutankhamun to reflect it. He moved the court from Amarna back to Memphis, rebuilt the cult of Amun at Thebes, and recorded his restorations on what's now called the Restoration Stela — rare among Egyptian kings, he was worshipped as a deity in his own lifetime. He carried out campaigns in Nubia and the Near East and began a royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings, but died unexpectedly around 13…