There are so many different topics that fascinated me throughout last quarter, but the most fascinating was King Tut. This was the most fascinating topic because as you look into all the other pharaohs when we looked into their tombs they were looted and/ or destroyed. Tombs were missing, but King Tut was untouched with all his treasures that included his solid gold sarcophagus and golden throne.
This was amazing because all of the other pharaohs had stolen items and hardly any items in perfect condition do to grave robberies. Another fascinating feat of this pharaaoh was that he became a pharaoh at the age of 9 and supposedly married a 13 year old girl. he died at the age of 19 with only reigning for 10 years which is such a short time compared to all the other pharaohs that would reing on average of 35 years.
King Tut did not do any great achievements himself because since he was so young he was not able to make any decisions, instead his elders and council leaders did all of the ruling and decisions that normally a pharaoh would make for him. Since he died at the age of 19 he was just one year over the age that he "was allowed" to rule so he made very few decisions in that one year.
Another thing that was great about him was that his death is largely debated right now. Some believe that he was probably poisned which was one of the common sudden deaths with pharaohs and elders and council members. Another debate is whether he was hit on the head with a club which means one of his elders, a council members, someone high on the branch of royalty, or someone he trusted highly killed him because noone else ever came near to the pharaoh.
These were some of the fascinating things that i loved about King Tut and why he is one of my favorite topics in Egyptian history.
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