Tutankhamun Handout

Bring the fascinating world of Tutankhamun and Ancient Egypt to life with this comprehensive, engaging classroom resource. Perfect for history lessons, homework, early finishers, independent research, and extension activities.

This 31-page Tutankhamun resource combines informative reading material with a wide variety of activities designed to encourage students to develop their historical knowledge, comprehension, research and critical-thinking skills.

What’s Included?

Information Sheets

Who was Tutankhamun?
His family and background
His reign and restoration of traditional Egyptian religion
His health and death
His famous tomb, KV62
Howard Carter’s 1922 discovery
Tutankhamun’s treasures and golden funerary mask
Why Tutankhamun remains famous today
Detailed Timeline

Students can follow key events from Tutankhamun’s birth and childhood through his reign, death and burial to Howard Carter’s discovery of KV62 and modern scientific investigations.

10 Comprehension Questions

A ready-to-use set of questions covering the main information in the reading material, with a teacher answer section included.

Thinking & Research Activities

Picture-based starter activity
Source-analysis activity
6W reading organiser
Extension task encouraging positive, negative and interesting responses
Independent research task
KWL activity
Word Search Challenge

A fun 15 × 15 word-search activity in which students create their own historical vocabulary puzzle and challenge classmates or their teacher.

Creative Graphic Organisers

The pack also includes a range of printable templates for students to record information, questions, observations and learning.

Skills Developed

Historical knowledge and understanding

Reading comprehension

Research skills

Source analysis

Questioning and enquiry

Critical thinking

Independent learning

Vocabulary development

Written communication

Creativity

Perfect For

Ancient Egypt units
Tutankhamun lessons
History classrooms
Homework
Cover lessons
Independent study
Extension work
Early finishers
Research projects
History revision
The resource is designed to be easy to print and use, giving teachers a mixture of factual content, structured activities and flexible classroom tasks in one convenient pack.

A versatile resource for helping students explore the life, reign, death and remarkable legacy of one of Ancient Egypt’s most famous pharaohs.