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Theories Of King Tut's Death

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King Tutankhamun was born in 1343 BC in Armana and became Pharaoh at the age of nine. King Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut, ruled during the 18th Egyptian dynasty for a short time of about nine years and did not get to accomplish many things during his reign. King Tut died at a very early age of 18 or 19 in which his name disappeared from Egypt until his tomb which was found in 1922. His death is still a mystery, but there are many theories on how he may have died. Theories range from a fatal chariot crash to simple genetics because King Tuts name disappeared from Egypt after his death, no one knows the mystery of how he died. Since the discovery of King Tuts tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 by English Egyptologist Howard Carter, there have been many theories of how and why King Tut died. Many people have claimed to have solved the mystery of King Tut’s death, but there are always other ideas and possibilities. In 1968, there were X-rays taken of King Tut that shows a missing breastplate along with broken and missing ribs. In 2005 a CT scan performed under the instruction of Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities at that time, also showed the broken ribs along with a broken leg, the rest of the results were not released to the public. (Williams, 2013) …show more content…

These scans show that King Tutankhamun suffered from severe genetic impairments. The scans showed that only one of his broken bones happened before death the rest were after the boy king was already dead. According to Professor Albert Zink, head of the Institute for Mummies and Icemen in Italy, who said he was confident that King Tut did not die from a chariot crash because in his conclusion Tut was unable to stand unaided, especially with his partially clubbed foot. (Buchanan,

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