King Tut was the pharaoh of
Ancient Egypt from 1333 B.C. To 1324 B.C. He was the son of
Akenhaten, son of Amenhotep IV, and Kiya. Tut's mother died when he
was born and Akenhaten died in 1335 when he was six. Therefore, he
was raised mostly by Nefertiti, Akenhaten's wife. When Tut was eight
Nefertiti died and Tut married his half sister Ankhesenpaaten.
Tut and Ankhesenpaaten had two children but they were both born dead.
There are still
conspiracies on how the boy king died. Some believe he was murdered
and others believe that he died from an infection caused by a broken
leg.
The reason that many people
believe that he died from an infection from a broken leg is because Tut
was in a chariot crash right before he died and he did have a broken
leg.
The theory of the murder of
King Tut goes like this, Tut was in a chariot crash and while he was
weak, Aye, the scribe who wanted to be Pharaoh for a long time, made a
soldier, named Sefu, kill Tut. He did this by suffocating him. Afterwards, Aye killed Sefu so he couldn't tell anyone what he had done. He then forced
Akhesenpaaten to marry him. Right after their wedding he killed her
and threw her in the Nile river. A few years after Aye became pharaoh, General Horemheb, a man who cooperated with Aye for years, killed him
and became pharaoh. When Horemheb was Pharaoh he was the first to excel Egypt back to it's height since the rule of Amenhotep.
