WhyTutan Khamun died?

Question

He became king at the age of 12 and died atthe age of 18
without any ailments, he died mysteriously.
Some believe that he had given a deadly curse.
But later it was found that the person who died and their deaths were related with this mummy was due to a fungus.

Answer 1

Tutankhamun was one of the last rulers of the 18th Dynasty during the New Kingdom period in ancient Egypt.

He ruled between 1333 and 1323 BCE.

His rule was in the final phases of a period known as the Amarna period by Egyptologists. He was most likely the son of king Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) and one of his minor wives, or possibly a son of Amenhotep III and thus the half-brother of Akhenaten. Akhenaten ushered in a brief era of revolutionary change in religion and art in Egypt, moving the capital to a briefly occupied, specially built new city in Middle Egypt called Akhetaten (modern Amarna or Tell el-Amarna). Akhenaten shifted the focus of Egyptian religion to the deification of the sun disk, called the Aten.
Tutankhamun came to the throne after the brief reign of Akhenaten's successor Smehkhare. Tutankhamun was only about 9 at the time and was then still known as Tutankhaten. In about year 3 of his reign, probably under the influence of his vizier, Ay, he abandoned the capital at Akhetaten, restored the old Egyptian gods, especially Amen-Re to prominence, and changed his name to reflect the importance of Amen in Egyptian kingship.

He was married to a daughter of Akhenaten - Akhesenpaaten (Akhesenamun after the restoration), who was probably a few years older than him. They had two daughter, both of whom were stillborn and their mummified remains were interred with Tutankhamun in his tomb (KV 62) in the Valley of the Kings.

Tut was quite young when he eventually died, probably no more than 19. His death is still something of a mystery.
There is no definitive evidence that he was murdered. Recent CT scans have indicated that he suffered a broken leg some time before his death and there is a possibility that the wound became infected resulting in his death. Much of the suggestion of murder has revolved around a cranial fracture which has now been demonstrated to have been a post-mortem fracture, quite possibly occuring during the excavation in the 1920s or possible occuring during the mummification process.

Of course, there is the possibility of poison - and both the process of mummification and the exposure of the remains for the past few decades may make it very difficult to confirm this hypothesis.

Around roughly the same period (within a few years), records from the Hittite empire tell of a fairly serious plague in Western Asia - it is possible that it spread to Egypt as well. Again, depending on the disease, it would be difficult to confirm this hypothesis.

If Tutankhamun was murdered, the prime suspect is the vizier Ay who succeeded him. Whether Ay actually did the deed himself or simply arranged for it to happen remains in question, as does whether Tutankhamun was actually murdered. Regardless of the political situation at the time, Egytian kings were considered the earthly incarnation of the divine Horus - they were divine (the issue of divinity is far more nuanced and complicated, but this is not the place to go into it). This did not always prevent murder or conspiracy to commit murder at various periods of Egyptian history, but it is worth bearing in mind.

After his death, Ay became king. The fate of his queen, Akhensenamun is unclear. There is a fairly famous letter written by an unknown Egyptian queen to the king of the Hittites asking him to send her a son to marry, that she might make him king because she did not wish to marry one of her servants (a commoner) and have that man become king. The Hittite king took a little too long making his decision and when he finally did send one of his sons, the young man died, possibly possibly murdered by the Egyptians.
Many scholars believe that the unnamed queen was Akhesenamun.

She was eventually married to Ay, based on the evidence of a signet ring bearing both their names, and thereafter disappears from history.

The "Curse" is really a lot of nonsense - Lord Carnarvon's health was poor and death from blood infection was still relatively common in the 1920s before the widespread use of antibiotics.
It's worth noting that Howard Carter - the archaeologist who actually found the tomb and worked so hard to catalogue and clear the contents died in his old age of natural causes.

Answer 2

It's still a mystery. & People who discovered Tutankhamun all got his "curse" & died misteriously. Some scientists belive that Tutan. was murdered by a relative of his, 'coz that relative wanted to be the King of Egypt. Some say that Tutan's aunt was jealous of him, so she planned a murder on him.
Well, there sure was a long knife scar on Tutan's head when people discovered him. Scientitsts did a X-ray on this dead mummy & found out there's nothing wrong with him except that scar.
What more freaking is that the professor (sorry, don't know how to spell his name) who discovered his tomb & Tutan the mummy died with a mosquito bruise on the head, at the exact same place as where the scar on Tutan's head is.
Some say that there's a gold-looking fly in Tutan's tomb & it hit the professor's head when he came in.
There sure was a warning by the entrance of the tomb saying "Death will be coming upon U if U come near" There was this egyptien spirituality snake & eagle in the tomb too, guarding the coffin of the mummy.

Answer 3

each and every cellular has DNA and that's consisted of two strands tightly woven around one yet another. the ingredient that stops the two strands from breaking aside is spoke of as a telomeric cap (that's random nucleotide sequences spoke of as nonsense codons. Codon is a three series of nucleotides that codes for amino acids eg. CUU is a amino acid spoke of as proline . A nonsense codon is one that doesnt code for any amino acid production) each and every time your cells divide a small series is lost there by using reducing the soundness of the cellular's DNA (in layman's words). this could finally lead do maximum of Ur cells' DNA becoming to be volatile. and in many cases while a mistake occurs in DNA the cellular will carry out automobile cytolysis (cellular suicide) to evade problems. So once you're old maximum of ur cells telomeric caps would be low and that they are services to die while they attempt to divide.. Whats quite thrilling approximately this thought is the top result it has on evolution (because of the fact this occurs on the two meiotic as properly as mitotic divisions. meaning that a species grows old too earlier it mutates.. yet thats a different tale)

Answer 4

Researchers continue to investigate the cause of Tutankhamun's premature death. Bob Brier, a mummy specialist from Long Island University, has been tracking down clues that indicate Tutankhamun may have been killed by his elderly chief advisor and successor, Ay. An X-ray of his skull revealed a calcified blood clot at its base. This could have been caused by a blow from a blunt implement, which eventually resulted in death.

[SEE article: "King Tut Not Murdered Violently, CT Scans Show"]


The painting in Tutankhamun’s burial chamber depicts Ay at the "opening of the mouth" ceremony, giving life and breath to the young deceased pharaoh. Ay, a commoner, is wearing the leopard skin of a high priest and the crown of a pharaoh. Since Tutankhamun did not have a child to succeed him, it appears that Ay decided to seize the crown and declare himself King of Egypt.


There were at least two other deaths following that of Tutankhamun. His young wife Ankhesenamum pleaded with the king of the Hittites to send her one of his sons for a husband. She did not want to marry a servant, such as Ay. A son was sent, but he was murdered before he arrived.


Queen Ankhesenamun offers Tutankhamun a bouquet of flowers. Scene taken from the lid of an ivory chest found in Tutankhamun's tomb.
Papyrus painting, modern

So who did Ankhesenamum marry? There is now evidence that she married Ay. A ring has been found with her cartouche inscribed next to his. Did Ay force her to marry him, thus legitimizing his claim to the throne? Within three years of Ay's death, Ankhesenamum disappeared. Could she also have been the victim of a serial killer?

What happened to Ay? He died within a few years of seizing the throne. His cartouches, which he had inscribed on temple walls, were eradicated, his tomb was robbed and vandalized, and his mummy disappeared. His name was also eliminated from the official list of pharaohs, as was that of Tutankhamun.

Another theory on Tutankhamun's death suggests that he was murdered by General Horemheb, a man of low birth who became one of Akhenaten's closest advisors. Under Tutankhamun, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the army and deputy of the king. Following the demise of Tutankhamun and Ay, Horemheb became pharaoh. During his reign, he had the names of Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Ay removed from the royal list of pharaohs, which suggests that he had personal reasons for eradicating those rulers from the records.

Answer 5

~Tutankhamen didn't die, he was murdered. Shortly after he ascended the Egyptian throne in 1333BCE, he announced his plans to erect a tomb, a pyramid, that would rival that of Cheops and Zoser, but he was going to build it on Wadi el Mulak in the Valley of the Kings. To erect it on the Wadi, he would be required to excavate the tomb of Rameses I and his kid brother's (Rameses II), to make room.

As all pharaohs were considered divinities, the desecration of the tombs planned by Tut had poised Thebes and Egypt on the brink of civil war. Ay, Tut's ultimate successor, and Nefertiti, Tut's sister, aunt and concubine (common amongst Egyptian nobility) determined to prevent the civil war and to put Akhenaten temporarily on the throne.

To accomplish their nefarious (derived from Nefertiti, by the way) plot, they laced his cornmeal with marmatomonax extract, which they distilled from the lunaficken plant (Egyptian aloe). By the time he was 16, Tut was virtually totally disabled with Marfan syndrome as a result of the marmatamonax poisoning. The esteemed Egyptian physician Khartermankheryen, conspiring with Nefertiti and Ay, feigned treating Tut by making him injest a potion of scarab faecalien and aiya kotzensie, which, of course, only exacerbated his symptoms.

Tut's brother, Ra, and his cousin/half-brother Nubis, stumbled upon the plot, overhearing Nefertiti and Akhematen whispering in her bedchamber beneath the Sphinx, immediately traveled to Mycenae by Phoenecian barge and forcibly brought Herodotus back to Egypt with them to attempt to reverse the effects of the poison. Unfortunately, Ay became aware of the purpose of their trip, gave up on the surreptitious plot and slipped an asp into Tut's ceremonial beard. Tut was dead within two days.

Answer 6

Recent evidence (they did a CT scan of the mummy) points to death from gangrene infection, after breaking his leg.

Answer 7

I had read in history that he was actually poisoned by the person next in line to become Pharoah.

Answer 8

i thought he fell off a chariot or something in a hunting accident, thought i seen that on the history channel or something

Answer 9

I'll ask him then tell you.