The Mysterious Death of King Tut Finally Solved
There has been much speculation since the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 among historians and enthusiast about the cause of King Tut’s death. Some have claimed murder due to mummy’s skull being crack. Others have said he died of natural causes.
Now British researchers believe that they have found the cause of this boy king’s death: King Tut, believed to have been only 17 at the time of his death, died as result of a chariot accident.
After analyzing the injuries sustained by King Tut, a smashed, rib cage, shattered pelvis, and crushed internal organs (all of which are associated with victims of car and atv accidents), forensic scientist believe that he was on his knees when the chariot landed on top of him. The fact that his heart may have been crushed in the chariot accident could account for why his heart was never found in his mummified body.
Another interesting detail that Archaeologist Chris Naunton, director of the Egypt Exploration Society, discovered was that King Tut’s body spontaneously combusted when he was sealed in his tomb in 1323 B.C.
Having come across comments in Howard Carter’s original notes stating that King Tut’s body showed signs of having been burned. Naunton with the aid of flesh and bone samples, which Egyptologist Robert Connolly of Liverpool University had kept from Tutankhamun’s mummy, was able to examine these samples under an electron microscope and found that the pharaoh's flesh did burn after it was sealed inside the tomb.
It is possible that the oils used in the embalming process soaked into the linen of the king’s burial shroud and once oxygen hit the oil-soaked shroud a chain reaction started a fire with temperatures exceeding 390 degrees Fahrenheit—200 degrees Celsius.
These and other revelations are detailed in a new British documentary, "Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy.