The famed pharaoh (an ancient egyptian king), Tutankhamun, may have secrets that most egyptologists haven’t yet discovered. The boy king who died at the age of 19 was a battle-hardened soldier. People think this because in his tomb, a dress-like piece of armoured clothing was found with scars. These suggest that the armour wasn’t just a toy, but actually real protection. Adding to this, a dagger was found inside his coffin quite close to his heart. This was ornately decorated with gold and other precious stones, but what intrigues egyptologysts is the blade. This is made from iron, quite a common metal on earth. But when it was put under a machine of some sort to trace the chemical footprints, it shows that it was not from Egypt, or the world. Theories suggest that a few years before the dagger was manafactured, a meteor hit the Earth, containing that exact iron, and smashed into tiny pieces and spread across Egypt. Then, when the blade was being made, someone obviously picked up the iron and moulded it into shape.
When archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Canarvon discovered the pharaoh in 1922, it is said that a ‘curse’ was set upon them. Anyone who disturbs the body of an ancient egyptian, especially a pharaoh, is said to bring bad luck, illness, or death to wherever they go. Many authors and documentaries have argued wether the curse is actually real or not. They have come to a conclusion that it is not because of the mummy, but just a rare scientific phononemon. The evidence for curses relating to King Tutankhamun is considered to be so meager that Donald B. Redford viewed it as “unadulterated claptrap”.
Tutankhamun was originally named Tutankhaten. This name, which means “living image of the Aten”, reflected the fact that Tutankhaten’s parents worshipped a sun god known as “the Aten”. After a few years on the throne the young king changed his religion, abandoned the Aten, and started to worship the god Amun (who was revered as king of the gods).
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