The Tutankamón death

Amenofis IV, called Akenatón (1364-1347 adC), implanted in Egypt the cult to the Sun, that is to say, a monotheistic religion, substituting the polytheism. To his death, his successor, the young man Tutankatón, restored the ancient gods and changed his name into that of Tutankamón, in honor to the god Amón.

In Museum of Egyptian Antiquities (Cairo) there survives a commemorative stela of the restoration of the polytheism, which he says:

“I found the temple full of debris, his demolished altars and his courtyards full of weeds. I returned his sacred relics, reconstructed the temple and gave him treasures. I ordered to do images of the gods in gold and amber, adorned with lapis lazuli and precious stones.”

Tutankamón died about 1335 adC, at the age of 18, for unknown causes. In 1922 Howard Carter discovered his grave, the only one of a Pharaoh who has come intact to our days. In the Tutankamón skull there was a broken bone, what made think that it had been murdered all at once in the head. The "suspect" of the crime was his successor Ay, a nobleman who came to king marrying the widow of the proper Tutankamón.

Well, the studies that for a pair of months they were coming being realized on the Tutankamón mummy it seems that they have come to a conclusion: it was not murdered and the blow of the skull should have taken place during the embalming. Decisive case. What it continues without know is the real cause of the death of the Pharaoh, although there signs up an infection produced by the break of a leg.

Category: Ancient Egypt, Archaeology

Tags: Pharaohs, mysteries