Exploring Ancient Mysteries

Exploring Ancient Mysteries

Vanita Canty

Humanities 111

Professor Caren Stayer

Exploring Ancient Mysteries

King Tut was born most likely in Tell el-Amana, Egypt in 1341 BCE to Akhenaton whom also ruled over Egypt, the identity of his mother has never been confirmed but is believed to be one of Akhenaton sisters. At the age of 9 He became King of Egypt and then married his sister or half-sister Ankhesenpaaton whom was the daughter of Akhenaton and Queen Nefertiti.

(Tutankhamen. By: Simmons, Donald C., Jr., Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, January, 2015)

King Tut died at the age of 18 and his death today is still a mystery. One of the mysteries of his death is that he died from wounds that he suffered from a speeding chariot, this according to Chris Nanuton of the Egypt Exploration Society he credit this theory from the notes of Howard Carter. The notes suggest that Kung Tut’s mummy was stuffed with linen and materials, which led Chris to examine the X-ray images of Tut’s skeleton that had been previous taken. Per the images Tut’s heart and ribs were missing, which Chris felt that they had been severely damaged and therefore removed from his body before he was buried. Chris enlisted the help of car crash investigators who used computers to simulate chariot accidents, and it was then that Chis determined if the chariot had hit Tut in with force in certain way it would have caused his ribs and heart to be crushed.

(Scholastic News -- Edition 5/6; 1/13/2014, Vol. 82 Issue 12, p4-5, 2p resource center)

Another mystery of death is that King Tut died from the illness malaria. According to The Journal of the American Medicals Association analysis and Zahi Hawass of the Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, suggest that King Tut’s family had the malaria gene and the family had a history of bone necrosis. X-ray’s also offer information that Tut had a deformed foot and a broken leg, which could support the malaria theory. (USA Today. 02/17/2010....