King Tut

Written on July 19, 2015 by Research History

Categories: Ancient History

Tags: History of King Tut, History of the Egyptian Kings, king tut facts, king tut tomb

History of the Egyptian King  started when Tut, full name being Tutankhaten, meaning “the living image of Aten“, was born approximately 1343 B.C. , or cited elsewhere as circa 1341 B.C.E, though no one knows for certain his exact date of birth.

His coming of age was during the reign of Akhenaten. He lived in what was then the almost 2000 year old country of Egypt; a barren dessert land on the North coast of Africa facing toward the Mediterranean Sea and split in half by the Nile. It is thought, though as with his birth the timeline is uncertain, to have become king at age 9, and ruled  until he died at the age of 19 or 20.

His claim to modern day fame was when his intact tomb was discovered in 1922.

King Tut’s tomb, known as KV62, see National Geographic video , was uncovered by British Egyptologist Howard Carter in 1922.

Much later in the discovered remains journey under scientific scrutiny,  Egyptian archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, did CT scans of the mummy and later wrote, “It reminded me of an ancient monument lying in ruins in the sand.” He and his team stated, that the king could have died from a malaria infection that followed a leg fracture. (Trop Med Int Health. 2010 Nov;15(11):1278-80. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02614.x. Malaria, mummies, mutations: Tutankhamun’s archaeological autopsy. Timmann C1, Meyer CG.)