King Tut

From the evidence that the investigators have to go on, it would seem that King Tut died of natural causes, rather than being murder. The most updated cause is that he died from gangrene caused by a broken leg. There are two mysteries that seems that King Tut was really murdered. The first one was Aye. He succeeded him to be king after he died. So it would make sense that he would have poisoned him or something so he could take the throne. Then after Aye, General Horemhab took the throne. Now both of these men were very powerful, they ruled Egypt while King Tut was a child. It would make sense that as King Tut was growing older that these two men started resenting him because they have lost so much power.

Also at the time of his death, King Tut was old enough to have sired an heir to the throne himself. Which in return would have technically eliminated Aye and Horemhab from ever taking the throne. Now King Tut was loved by everyone in Egypt for restoring the Amun priesthood after the death of his father. However, this was almost certainly the work of Aye and General Horemhab, who could have even resented Tut receiving all the glory of their work.

Finally, there was the issue of King Tut's widow, Ankhespaton, who was apparently forced to marry Aye after King Tut's death. Only a short time later, she disappeared from the annals of history, leading to speculation that she too might have been murdered. (n.d.). In The Death of King Tut. Retrieved April 30, 2013, from http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/kingtutdeath.htm.

However, one of the main reasons that investigators, believe that it was murder than nature causes because of the fracture on the back of his head. Revealed in an X-ray of his mummy made by the University of Liverpool, a trauma specialist at Long Island University in the US theorized that the blow was not caused by an accident. (n.d.). In The Death of King Tut. Retrieved April 30, 2013, from...