When you delve deeply into what is now known about Egyptian Magic, you discover that one thing was emphasized, the Power of Words and the Power of True Names. The ancient Egyptian words we now call hieroglyphs, an ancient Greek word that means Sacred Symbols, for that is what the Ancient Egyptians called them, “Medu Neter”, the ‘words of the gods’.

These words had to be written, used and spoken in exactly the same way to be effective. Magical practice throughout the ages emphasized this method and still does, even in fantasy books about magic, like the Harry Potter books.

So here we have a boy who became King of Egypt at nine years old, who was also supposed to be a Master Magician, and whose tomb was a treasure-trove of knowledge as well as the intrinsic value of its mostly unplundered ‘Wonderful things.’ Almost a hundred years after the discovery of this King and his tomb, the world remains fascinated by King Tut, and the more we discover about him, the deeper become the mysteries about him. Every piece of the puzzle solved only leads to more questions about this King.

For instance, we now know, thanks to the National Geographic, Dr. Zawi Hawass and program on the cat-scan of Tut’s mummy, that Tut was not killed by a blow to the head.

The two predecessors of Tutankhamen, the ‘revolutionary’ Akhenaten who supposedly tried to impose the first ‘Monotheism’ on his Empire and his CoRegent SmenkhKare, whose desecrated coffin was discovered in 1907, had passed out of history without any clue how they died.

A boy-king, a boy magician, who became King under mysterious circumstances, whose power is still felt around the world, three thousand years later. What better subject for a series?

I invite you to explore the world of King Tut in my series Tales of King Tut and the power of the Magic of Ancient Egypt.