Tutankhamun may have died more than 3,300 years ago, but it is still possible to ‘attend' the pharaoh's funeral via the painted scenes discovered inside his burial chamber. On the east wall we see the mummified king lying in a coffin on top of a bier on board a boat, which is itself standing on a wooden sled. Twelve of Egypt's highest-ranking dignitaries, all dressed in white linen, have assembled to drag the funerary sled across the desert to the Valley of the Kings. Meanwhile, on the north wall of the chamber, the funeral procession has reached the tomb, with Tutankhamun's mummy propped upright and his successor, King Ay, dressed in a priestly leopard skin to conduct the rituals that will allow the dead king to live again. There is one key omission from these scenes, however.
Nowhere in these paintings do we see Tutankhamun's widow, Ankhesenamun (formerly also Ankhesenpaaten). If we want to learn more about the
