By carrying out CT scans of King Tutankhamun's mummy, we were able in 2005 to show that he did not die from a blow to the head, as many people believed. Our analysis revealed that a hole in the ...

The cartouche encircling the king's name on the interior ... Then, around 1323 B.C., Tut suddenly died. According to the recent computed tomography (CT) scans, he was 18 to 20 years old at the ...

Tutankhamun took the throne around 1332 BCE, likely at the age of eight or nine, during a time of major social and religious ...

King Tut’s skeleton has been dismantled and stuck back together, photographed and x-rayed, had CT scans and DNA tests. But do we now know how he died? Click on the theories and decide for yourself.

Before his discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, it's rumored that Howard Cater, the renowned Egyptologist, ...