Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues Question Answers: NCERT Class 11 English - Hornbill

(i) King Tut was the last ruler of his family and was very rich but he died unexpectedly in small age. His mummy had earned worldwide fame because his mummy was found with lot of gold and other luxuries and everyone was speculating that how he died in small age and what was that age when he died. Hence King Tut’s body has been subjected to repeated scrutiny.
(ii) Howard Carter had chiseled the mummy because Tut’s body was stick in the tomb due to resins. And due to chiseling out the body he had damaged some major parts of his body and rather focusing on cultural and historic values, he focused more on treasures so his investigation got resented.
(iii) It was difficult remove Tut’s body as it was cemented due to resins which had hardened then, so he was not left with any other option except chiseling it.
(iv) In the ancient times, it was believed that if a king dies so he should take all his treasures and luxuries with him and as king Tut was very rich so he was buried along with glided treasures.
(v) In the ruling age of Amenhotep, he had removed all the temples of god Amun. So when Tut’s time started he had re-established all the temples of god Amun. And to show respect and belief he changed his name from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun which means “living image of Amun”.

(i) It was obvious that Akhanaten was described as wacky due to following reasons: 
1) He had moved the religious capital from the old city of the Thebes to the new city of Akhetaten which is now known with Amarna.
2) He had destroyed all the images of god Amun.
3) He had closed all his temples.
(ii) When Tut’s body went through CT scan, they took 1700 digital X-ray images in cross-section. It showed grey head, neck vertebrae, a hand and several images of rib cages. Now they cleared that nothing suspicious had happened with Tut’s body.
(iii) X-ray, CT scans, ultrasound, post mortem, autopsy and biopsy.
(iv) King Tut had become a king in very small age and also died unexpectedly in small age so everyone was curious about his death and also he belonged from the rich family and CT scan and other technologies revealed the facts related to his life and death so his mummy was one of the first mummies to be scanned in life as in death.

1. In the motion:
As king Tut died in small age so various mystery was buried along him in his tomb. His tomb was made with gold and all luxuries were there. So people were speculating about him. So scientific intervention helped to clear the unclear mystery behind the death of king Tut. So scientific intervention is necessary to unearth buried mysteries.
Against the motion:
Scientists should use their science for making resources for the country and people and to make everyone’s life easy. They should not touch the cultural values and emotional values of the people and they should let all the mysteries and past buried with them. By finding, researching about the past is just the wastage of time and money so they should use their science for the people not to hurt sentiments of people.
2. In the motion:
Advanced technologies gives the clear view of past and its mysteries. It helps to give conclusion to any mystery. As in case of king Tut, the advanced technology like CT scans and X-ray machines helped them to make Tut’s clear images of his body and 3D face images. And concluded that nothing suspicious had happened with king Tut.
Against the motion:
I completely disagrees with the advanced in technologies gives conclusive result and evidence. It is not true in all the cases it gives true and real evidence however, evidence can be made fake and it would be unfair with sentiments of people to touch the history of anyone. The test can describe the time period of anyone’s death but not the exact reason of his death.
3. In the motion:
This world is full of tradition, rituals and funerary practices. So it should be respected by everyone to anyone’s history. In some cultures the dead bodies 
are buried in the earth as it is believed that by doing so the person who have died will get the peace so we should not touch their rituals and cultures. And in this case Tut’s body was chiseled out and all these process hurts the tradition, rituals, and funerary practices.
Against the motion:
As time passed and development took place. And all the mystery related to past must be carried out in front of us so that all the speculations would be cleared to everyone. By doing so all the superstitions and mysteries can be brought in front of us. And we can know the how people used to live in that period of time and it will increase the knowledge.
4. In the motion:
We live in the world where modernization and development took place. And as time passes we get to know about the past mistakes and incidents and it helps for better understanding and more development. By knowing about our ancestors we get to know about their lifestyle and cultures of that time and it passes to us and to the future generation.
Against the motion:
 We are in the era where development is more necessary and these rituals, cultures and past will not help us to survive in today’s competitive and struggling time. The knowledge about the past can give only some information but not the progress.

The main reasons for the extinction of languages are restriction which is implemented on the people and due to some rules and strictness and lack of freedom of speech results in extinction of languages.

Yes, it is important to preserve languages because languages are the main ways by which a person can express our feelings to other people.

If we try to change the thinking of people that languages must be inherit to the next generation and to the other people as it is important to express our feeling then we can preserve the extinction of languages and by making some laws and provisions like freedom of speech can play an important role to preserve the language.