The Mystery of Tutankhamun’s Death

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Tutankhamun was an

Egyptian pharaoh of the

18th dynasty during the

period of Egyptian history

known as the New Kingdom.Tutankhamun really means

Living Image ofAthen butpeople normally know of him

as King Tut.


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King Tut ascended to the throne

when he was only eight years old

and ruled for eleven years and

then King Tut died at the age ofnineteen.


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When was it discovered?

During the time he ruled it was customfor every pharaoh to be buried in

Luxor, the Valley of the Kings. King

Tuts tomb had been remainedundiscovered until 1922 when Howard

Carter dug it up


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Why was it so famous?

It was and still is one of the richest and

most famous tombs to ever been

discovered. It was so famous becausethere were over five thousand artefacts

found there. Some examples of the

artefacts are; thrones, beds, chests,statues, masks and jewellery.


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An unsolved mystery

Even though Howard Carter dug the

tomb up and discovered and

observed all the artefacts and wasable to solve many mysteries about

the tomb and the reign of King Tut,

there was still one mystery that had

not been solved.


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What killed the young pharaoh

King Tut?

This specific pharaoh has many

death conspiracy theories. One

that is very well known is thatKing Tut was murdered by a

blow to the head. This theory

though is very difficult to prove

or disprove.


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Why did he die at the age of

nineteen?

The preserving of King Tut involved gluing a lot

of his body parts and when Howard Carter

tried to remove the mummy from the tomb heended up breaking some of King Tuts bones.

So due to the dismembering of King Tuts body

it was hard to prove what the cause of deathwas to the nineteen-year-old pharaoh.


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Mystery solvedor not?

The scientists recently used a CT scanner to

analyze the remains. And even though the

mummy was in awful condition they found

evidence that King Tut had a broken left

thighbone shortly after he passed away.


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A broken legSince back then during this time

period, there were no sorts of

antibiotics he suffered a severe

infection and was most likely fatal.


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There will always be a difference in

opinions and all sorts of differentconspiracy theories about the

death of King Tut but we will never

know for sure. The best evidence

does support that he suffered and

died from serious complications ofa broken leg.


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When Carter arrived home

that night his servant met

him at the door. In his handhe clutched a few yellow

feathers. His eyes large with

fear, he reported that the

canary had been killed by a

cobra. Carter, a practicalman, told the servant to

make sure the snake was out

of the house.


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The man grabbed Carter by

the sleeve. "The pharaoh's

serpent ate the bird

because it led us to the

hidden tomb! You must notdisturb the tomb!"

Scoffing at such

superstitious nonsense,Carter sent the man home.


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Carter immediately sent a telegram to

Carnarvon and waited anxiously for his

arrival. Carnarvon made it to Egypt byNovember 26th and watched as Carter

made a hole in the door. Carter

leaned in, holding a candle, to

take a look. Behind him Lord

Carnarvon asked, "Can you seeanything?"

Carter answered, "Yes,

wonderful things.


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The tomb was intact and contained an

amazing collection of treasures

including a stone sarcophagus. Thesarcophagus contained three gold

coffins nested within each other.


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Inside the final one was the

mummy of the boy-king, Pharaoh

Tutankhamen. The day the tomb

was opened was one of joy and

celebration for all those involved.Nobody seemed to be concerned

about a curse.


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A few months later tragedy

struck. Lord Carnarvon, 57,was taken ill and rushed to

Cairo. He died a few days

later. The exact cause of

death was not known, but it

seemed to be from aninfection started by an insect

bite.


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Legend has it that when he diedthere was a short power failure

and all the lights throughout Cairo

went out. On his estate back in

England his favourite dog howled

and dropped dead.


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Even more strange, when the

mummy of Tutankhamun wasunwrapped in 1925, it was found

to have a wound on the left cheekin the same exact position as the

insect bite on Carnarvon that lead

to his death.

By 1929 eleven people


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By 1929 eleven people

connected with the

discovery of the Tomb haddied early and of unnatural

causes. This included two of

Carnarvon's relatives,

Carter's personal secretary,

Richard Bethell, andBethell's father, Lord

Westbury.


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Westbury killed himself by jumping

from a building. He left a note thatread, "I really cannot stand any

more horrors and hardly see what

good I am going to do here, so I am

making my exit."


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The press followed the deaths carefully

attributing each new one to the

"Mummy's Curse."

By 1935 they had credited 21 victims to

King Tut. Was there really a curse? Orwas it all just the ravings of a

sensational press?.


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Perhaps, the power of a curse is in the

mind of the person who believes in it.Howard Carter, the man who actually

opened the tomb, never believed in

the curse and lived to a reasonably old

age of 66 before dying of entirely

natural causes.


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