Tutankhamun was one of the pharaohs of the eighteenth dynasty in the history of ancient Egypt, and he was the pharaoh of Egypt from 1334 to 1325 BC. In the era of the modern state.
Tutankhamun is considered one of the most famous pharaohs for reasons that are not related to the achievements he achieved or the wars he won, but for other reasons that are not considered historically important, the most prominent of which is the discovery of his tomb, and his treasures completely without any damage and the mystery that surrounded the circumstances of his death, where many considered the death of Pharaoh at a very early age something Unnatural, especially with the presence of traces of fractures in the femur and skull, and the marriage of his minister to his widow after his death and the inauguration of himself Pharaoh, all these mysterious events and the heavy use of the legend of the curse of the pharaohs associated with the tomb of Tutankhamun that was used in films and video games made Tutankhamun famous The Pharaohs were for reasons not at all related to the historical importance or the achievements he achieved during his short years as the pharaoh of Egypt, but rather to puzzles and unanswered questions that some considered one of the oldest assassinations in human history.
Tutankhamun was 9 years old when he became pharaoh of Egypt and his name in the ancient Egyptian language means "the living image of the god Amun", the great ancient Egyptian deity.
Tutankhamun lived in a transitional period in the history of ancient Egypt, where he came after Akhenaten, who tried to unite the gods of ancient Egypt in the form of the one God. During his reign, he returned to the worship of the many gods of ancient Egypt.
His tomb was discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter, and this discovery caused widespread media uproar in the world.
His beginnings :
Most archaeologists believe that Tutankhamun was the son of Amenhotep IV, known as Akhenaten, and it is believed that his reign was from 8-10 years and his mummy shows that he was a young man under twenty years of age. Probably nineteen years old when he died.
In 2005, a team of archaeologists and specialists in the history of ancient Egypt from Egypt, the United States and France, in conjunction with the National Geographic magazine, attempted to create an image as similar as possible to the figure of Tutankhamun. Three-dimensional CT Scans The model presented by this team was considered one of the closest to the real figure of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, but there was a difference in the color of the skin and eyes, as there is no technology available to this day by which the skin color can be determined based on the remains of the mummy.
His reign:
He ordered the restoration, repair and restoration of the sacred statues and boats, and the organization of the priesthood again, and all the temples returned their money and resources. And he began to build a huge number of the masters’ hall in Luxor, the great masters in Karnak, and the beautiful statues that give the king of the gods, as usual, the features of the pharaoh’s face, were also built, and the “Palace of Millions of Years” (which has not yet been determined its place) was built on the west bank of Thebes.
Causes of his death :
For a long time, the cause of Tutankhamun's death was a controversial issue, and there were many conspiracy theories that favored the idea that he did not die, but was killed in an assassination.
On March 8, 2005, as a result of the use of three-dimensional CT scans on the mummy of Tutankhamun, Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass stated that there was no evidence that Tutankhamun had been subjected to an assassination, adding that the hole in his skull was not due the reason of He received a blow to the head, as was previously believed, but this hole was made after death for the purpose of embalming. Zahi Hawass explained the fracture in the left femur, which has long been linked to the assassination theory, that it was the result of a fracture in the femur that Tutankhamun suffered before his death, and perhaps the inflammation resulting from This fracture may have caused his death.
Recent analyzes also showed that the bone of the roof of the oral cavity of Tutankhamun was not complete, and the height of Tutankhamun was 170 cm, and the transverse length of his skull was greater than the normal length, which led some to suggest Marfan's syndrome as a cause of early death. Autosomal dominant genes.
The final report of the Egyptian archaeological team was that the cause of death was blood poisoning as a result of the fracture in the thigh bone that Tutankhamun suffered, which led to the gangrene, which is the death and decomposition of cells and tissues as a result of the secretion of enzymes from the dead muscles due to the lack of oxygen access to them through the blood .
Prior to this report, there were attempts to find out the cause of death by using X-rays on the mummy of Tutankhamun that took place at the University of Liverpool and the University of Michigan in 1968 and 1978, respectively, and the two universities discovered a dark spot under Tutankhamun's skull from the back, which was interpreted As a brain hemorrhage, which led to the spread of the hypothesis that he had received a blow to the head that led to a brain hemorrhage and then death
