Tutankhamun (some called him King Tut) is likely the most famous of all the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, however he was a shortly lived and fairly insignificant ruler during a transitive period in history.
Little was notable of Tutankhamun prior to Howard Carters methodical investigator work, but the discovery of his tomb and the sticking contents it held ultimately 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 known firstly.
Shortly after the deaths of Akhenaten and Smenkhkare, Tutankhaten got a Boy King at the age of about nine. He married a slimly older Ankhesenpaaten, one of Akhenaten's daughters and Nefertiti.
After the expelling of the Aten power base they adjusted their names to Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun to meditate the return to favor of the Amun hierarchy.
Expected to his young age, Tutankhamun would not have been trusted for the real decision making. This would have been treated by two high officials, Ay (perhaps the father of Nefertiti) and Horemheb, commander-in-chief of the regular army.
Sometime approximately the ninth year of Tutankhamun's rule, perhaps 1325 B.C., he died. There is prove of an injury to the skull that had time to partly cure. He may have endured an accident, such as dropping from his horse-drawn chariot, or maybe he was murdered. That is unknown. Ay supervised Tutankhamun's burial arrangements which lasted seventy days.
Because Tutankhamun having no successors, Ay became Pharaoh and involved Ankhesenamun as his queen to legitimise his rule. What occurred to her after that is unknown. Ay ruled for only 4 years and after his death Horemheb caught power. He shortly obliterated evidence of the reigns of Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Ay and exchanged his own name on some monuments.
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