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Tutankhamun Facts

Tutankhamun (King Tut) is likely the most famous of all the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, even so he was a short lived and fairly light ruler during a transitional period in history. Little was known of Tutankhamun anterior to Howard Carters methodical detective work, but the discovery of his tomb and the amazing contents it held finally ensured this boy king of the Immortality he desired. It is thought that Akhenaten and a lesser wife called Kiya were the parents of Tutankhaten, as Tutankhamun was famous at first. Shortly after the deaths of Akhenaten and Smenkhkare, Tutankhaten got a Boy King at the age of about 9. He married a slimly older Ankhesenpaaten, one of the daughters of King Akhenaten and Nefertiti. After the expelling of the Aten power base they changed their titles to Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun to meditate the return to favour of the Amun hierarchy. Payable to his young age, Tutankhamun would not have been true for the real decision making. 
 
This would have been covered by two high officials, Ay perhaps the father of Nefertiti) and Horemheb, commander-in-chief of the regular army. Sometime about the ninth year of the reign of Tutankhamun, maybe 1325 B.C., he died. There is evidence of an wound to the skull that had time to partly cure. He may have suffered an accident, such as dropping from his horse-drawn chariot, or possibly he was murdered. No one acknowledges. Ay supervised Tutankhamun's burial arrangements which endured 70 days. Expected to Tutankhamun having no successors, Ay became Pharaoh and took Ankhesenamun as his queen to legalized his rule. What occurred to her after that is not known. Ay reigned for only four years and after his death Horemheb caught power. He soon obliterated prove of the reigns of Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Ay and exchanged his own name on many monuments. 
 
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