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Dude, were you really going to try and email King Tut? You're ambitious! But, if you're still curious, you could try Tutankhamun62@yahoo.com....
While you're here, these are a few fun facts about the real-life King Tut:
Tutankhamun was virtually unknown in Egyptology until his tomb was discovered in November 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter. However, what most people don't know is that his tomb had been broken into twice shortly after his burial--but, based on the re-sealed entrance and the state of artifacts in the tomb, we can gather that guards apparently caught the thieves before they could take anything more substantial than some jewelry, gold ornaments and perfumed oils. The guards even tried to straighten things up afterward, because so many labelled boxes were found containing the wrong things stuffed inside.
Tut is often called the "Boy King" because he was coronated when he was only eight or nine years old, and he ruled for only ten years before dying mysteriously at about nineteen. Today we consider someone that age to be just a teenager, but in his day someone aged nineteen was basically considered a grown man. In fact, the mummies of two stillborn baby girls were found buried with Tutankhamun, and many scholars now believe those were his children. So the moniker of "Boy King" is actually a bit misleading, because at the time of his death we can guess that he was considered an adult and was trying to start a family. Recently scholars have also debated whether or not he was murdered. A newer, more state-of-the-art autopsy found no signs of illness or head injuries, but did reveal that the he suffered a broken leg that might have caused fatal complications. No doubt the speculation will continue.
The identity of King Tut's parents has long been a subject of debate--it seems at the end of the 18th dynasty they weren't writing all that stuff down--but many now agree that his father was King Akhenaton, who is also called the Heretic Pharaoh because he shut down all the state temples devoted to the god Amun in favor of another god, the sun deity Aton. Some scholars say it was purely religious innovation while others think it was more of a political move, but in either case, Akhenaton was hated by a lot of people after he died. His name was erased from monuments and public records, and the city he built, Akhetaton, was abandoned in about Year Three of Tutankhamun's reign.
King Tut's body still rests in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Until 2007 he lay inside one of the three mummy-shaped, or mummiform, coffins in which he had originally been buried. This gilded wooden coffin in turn rested inside his quartzite sarcophagus, covered by a thick pane of glass. But due to concerns about the preservation of his mummy, in late 2007 King Tut was placed in a special climate-controlled glass display case set up in his tomb. You can watch the video article about his official unveiling here.
In life, King Tut stood about five-foot-seven with a slight build. He kept his head shaved--chances are he'd be asking Yul Brenner for royalties--and to this day he still has a pearly white smile.
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