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Home All Questions What happened to King Tut that caused him to die? Jack

What happened to King Tut that caused him to die? Jack

It used to be thought that Tutankamum died as a result of falling off a chariot but recent investigations have shown that he was probably weakened by some inherited genetic problem (he did have a partially clubbed foot) and had also suffered from malaria. So despite being the pharaoh he was not in the best of health.

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Julian Richards

Julian Richards is best known as the TV archaeologist from Meet the Ancestors and Blood of the Vikings. He loves Stonehenge – and has even written a pop-up book about it!

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