King Tut one stop in Canada at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario | Photo 03

HISTORY: King Tutankhamun ( inscribed as 'Neb, Kheperu and Re' means Tutankhamun) was one of the few kings worshiped as a god and honored with a cult-like following in his own lifetime and is so famous because his tomb was in almost perfect condition. The veil of mystery about his death was also recently lifted early this year due to a new x-ray analysis medical examination of the remains conducted by a trauma specialist at Long Island University in the USA, that suggest King Tut may have not been murdered in his sleep but died instead from an infection caused by a broken leg. The x-rays displayed a thickening of a bone in the cranium which could occur only after a build-up of blood. The examining scientists suggest that the king was most probably hit on the back of his head while asleep and nursing an injured leg. The injuries indicate that the King might have been left bleeding for about two months before he actually died. More than 87 years have passed since the discovery of his amazing tomb, the mummy of King Tut was found in 1922 by Howard Carter and the wealthy Lord Carnarvon who had searched for many years before the find. With further excavation they arrived to a hopeful find but the first room they came to was a fake and it had a hidden door that led to the main chamber. Many workers died of the so-called curse on King Tut's tomb but we now know that bacteria sealed in the tomb fed on the food in the tomb and killed the workers when it got in their lungs. There was a secret storage room in the burial chamber where the real was mummy of King Tut was laid to rest.