King Tutankhamun Research Paper

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King Tutankhamun was the ruler for Egypt. King Tutankhamun died when he was a teen. He was laid to rest laden with gold, but later on he got forgotten. Until a man named Howard Carter found king Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922. After that, Howard died because of blood poisoning from an infected mosquito bite. People think this was because he had a ‘’mummy curse.”

King Tutankhamun has died 3,300 years ago. Experts believe that he died because of a chariot crash but other experts believe he died from an illness. King Tutankhamun died because he suffered from serious physical impairments. That means he was damaged. Sine king Tutankhamun's dad Akhenaten married his step sister Nefertiti, king Tut had damage when he was born because if you marry your sibling, your bloodline will be to close. This has been proved to cause genetic issues when you're giving birth to a baby. Which means your baby can be a mutant. Luckily, king Tutankhamun wasn’t a mutant but he still had birth damage. Scans showed that King Tutankhamun had fractures in his skull and a club foot. These are one of the reasons how King Tutankhamun could’ve died.
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Howard Carter broke into king Tutankhamun’s tomb. It was filled with thousands of artifacts and the golden death mask which covered king Tutankhamen’s body. Before, Howard Carter king Tutankhamun was basically unknown, and his life still remains a mystery. Tut became Pharaoh when he was 10 and died when he was 18, so he ruled for 8 years and he was married to his half-sister. King Tutankhamun’s death has been a mystery, x-rays taken in 1968 said he might’ve been killed by a blow in his head and testing in 2005 think that king Tutankhamun died because of an infection on his