Today (December 28, 2019; note the date) two of my English classes -- using two different textbooks by two different publishers based in two different countries -- both happened to feature exercises in which the students had to practice (two different) grammar points by making sentences about Tutankhamen.
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| Let King Tut teach you about personal pronouns and possessives . . . |
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| . . . and past passive sentences, too! |
(Notice also, as a subsidiary coincidence, the prominence of the numerals 3 and 4 on the two pages.)
In other news,
Egypt Today reports:
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| "Largest coffee cup mosaic of King Tut's mask" -- a competitive field! |
2 comments:
The significance is that you need to study the disastrous rule of Akhenaten and its reversal by King Tut - and learn that mono-theism is not necessarily better than poly-. But then, you already knew that.
I am not and never have been a monotheist, so yes, I already knew that. However, I didn't know that Tut was Akhenaten's son and reversed his monotheistic reforms -- although I suppose I should have inferred as much from the fact (mentioned in the first textbook) that both he and his wife originally had theophoric names ending in "-aten," names which were later changed "as a result of political changes." I even mentioned to one of my students that the changes were probably religious rather than political, since they involved replacing one god's name with another's, but I didn't make the connection that it was that religious change. (As you can see, my Egyptian history is extremely sketchy.)
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