In 1922 Howard Carter discovered King Tut’s tomb. Carter noticed many unusual things about the tomb which suggested that it was hastily finished. First of all, ion some of the objects surrounding King Tut, other names had been scratched out and his had been scratched in. Second of all, there were sloppy paint splashes which could and should have been cleaned before the tomb was sealed. Third of all, King Tut’s corpse was sloppily embalmed. An ointment that was used for embalming had been poured over the mummy. The sloppy paint job and embalming job suggest that the tomb was in a

To explore why the tomb was so rushed, Carter performed an autopsy of Tut’s corpse in 1925. Unfortunately, the embalming liquid that had been poured over the mummy had glued it to the coffin. In order to examine it, the body had to be removed limb by limb from the coffin. In the autopsy, Carter found nothing suspicious to suggest that Tut did not die of natural causes. But in 1968 there was an x-ray done of King Tut’s corpse. This x-ray showed a silver of bone floating in his brain and evidence of a massive blood clot at the base of his skull. This is evidence that King Tut suffered a severe blow to the back of his head, which would have caused a sudden death. There are three main suspects who have been thought to have delivered the fatal blow to Tut; Horemheb, his military commander; Ankhesenamen, his wife; and Ay, his Prime Minister. Horemheb has been suspected because when he became Pharaoh, he had King Tut and other Pharaoh

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