Among the four ancient civilizations, ancient Egypt has attracted countless historians and archaeologists with its splendid civilization and various mysterious legends.
On the west bank of the Nile, more than 700 kilometers south of Cairo, there is a reputation known as the "Valley of the Kings", where more than 30 pharaohs are buried
In 1922, an archaeologist named Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, the pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, in the Valley of the Kings.
Tutankhamun, an ordinary and inactive pharaoh, is recorded in historical sources that he ascended the throne around 1362 BC at the age of 10, married a 12-year-old girl, and died at the age of 19.
Originally, as such a pharaoh, he should have been lonely. However, what made him famous and sensational was his posthumous mausoleum. His tomb is the most complete and researchable of the ancient Egyptian pharaonic tombs ever discovered.
Why do you say that? After the successful excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb, people finally saw the complete tombs of pharaohs and the burial system of pharaohs in ancient Egypt.
After 8 years of careful excavation, more than 2,000 cultural relics of large and small sizes were found in the entire tomb, and all kinds of furniture, utensils, boxes and other utensils were decorated with gold, silver and jade.
The two life-size statues found in the mausoleum, made of ebony gilded throughout, are the most striking. These two vivid and lifelike statues are thought to have been carved in Tutankhamun's own image.
When Tutankhamun's coffin was opened and the last layer of linen wrapped around the mummy's face was uncovered, it was found that there was a wound under Tutankhamun's left earlobe, which was a fatal wound that could have died of it. How is the wound caused? Who is the murderer?
After reviewing the historical documents and the frescoes unearthed in Tutankhamun's mausoleum, it is generally known that:
Because Tutankhamun was too young when he ascended the throne, he could only hold great power jointly with the minister Ayi. However, at the age of 19, Tutankhamun died suddenly, and his young queen, Ankh Herson Patton, had to ask Egypt's enemy, the Hittite king, to send a prince to marry her, but this Hittite prince Zannan was assassinated on the way to Egypt before he could reach Egypt. In the end, it was the minister Ayi who succeeded to the throne.
Some say it was Ayi who murdered Tutankhamun in order to become a pharaoh. The reason is that Amenhotep IV, that is, Tutankhamun's father, abolished the worship of the gods in ancient Egypt and forced a "monotheism" in the dynasty, that is, the worship of the sun god, and Ayi was the opposition in the dynasty, and when Amenhotep IV died, he killed Tutankhamun to justify the ancient Egyptian gods.
Was it Minister Ayi who killed young Tutankhamun? There is no information to prove it. Because Ayi could have done it when Tutankhamun was still a minor, why wait so long?
Some scholars believe that Tutankhamun died of a genetic disease. Because in 2005, scientists examined by advanced instruments and found that Tutankhamun had suffered a serious fracture in his left leg before his death. They believe that because Tutankhamun's parents were close relatives married, he suffered from a genetic disease. After his injuries, he died of an infected leg wound due to his low immunity.
However, we cannot determine the veracity of these two claims. Did Tutankhamun die of murder or disease? Perhaps history has buried everything, and the truth will never appear to the world.