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What is Tutankhamun’s greek name?
King Tut is famous now, but his memory had been quite effectively erased by his successors.
Manetho wrote a Greek history of Egypt listing pharaohs, whose names only kinda sorta line up with the names we find in Egyptian documents. The pharaoh he lists corresponding to King Tut is Rathotis. See the paper Manetho’s Eighteenth Dynasty by Gary Greenberg for more. Marianne Luban in The Identity of Manetho’s Rathotis proposes that Rathotis comes from the Egyptian for “swollen foot” (Oedipus).
In Modern Greek, King Tut is transliterated as Τουταγχαμών.
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