The Curse of King Tut: The Once Lost Tomb In Egyptian history, King Tutankhamen (King Tut) was the youngest pharaoh to have ever ruled. He was only nine years of age when he became King and dying at the very young age of eighteen. Little was initially known about him or his family. King Tut was first discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Car-narvon in the Valley of the Kings. When the tomb had been lo-cated, it was very well hidden. King Tut was widely known by the name and yet little was known about him as a pharaoh. As for further knowledge, more was known about his curse then an-ything else. The curse held within King Tut’s tomb was said to say that anyone who disturbed him would die a swift death. The young pharaohs’ name was Tutankhamen, …show more content…
After the opening of the tomb, the city of Cairo had a major power out-age the moment Carnarvon died. Carters canary was eaten by a cobra, and Carnarvon’s dog also died. All these events were blamed on the dis-turbsion of the mummy (Sapet 4). When some-one was working close to the mummy died, it was “the curses” fault. Yet others lived a while longer and died of old age or of natural causes. When the discovery anniversary came around many Egyptians disagreed with moving out artifacts, after pa-pers to move them signed the signer died. The reason the work-ers who died may have died is from the fumes from Tut’s tomb (Pace 82). King Tutankhamun had a short yet successful reign. Unfor-tunately his successors did not want him remembered and delet-ed him from Egyptian history. The importance of his discovery taught us that he was the youngest king to ever rule in Egyp-tian history, how he had died, who his parents were, why he married his half-sister, and that he was a threat to others who wanted to rule because he was so successful and people liked him as a ruler. This finding made the world curious and even now almost a century later it is still one of the most talked about