The DISTURBING Truth About Tutankhamun's Final Days (The Full Story Is Absolutely Horrifying)

Priests poured black, sticky unguent over Tutankhamun's body in a coffin of solid gold, in a tomb that was almost certainly never meant for him. On the wall of his burial chamber, the paint still wet, the old courtier Ay had himself painted as the next pharaoh. And somewhere in the palace, King Tut's young widow wrote to Egypt's enemy, the Hittite king, with three words historians still argue about. "I am afraid." This full documentary follows the evidence on how Tutankhamun really died, aged about nineteen, around 1323 BC. It covers the Amarna royal family and the 2010 DNA study that named his parents, and why some Egyptologists dispute it. It also covers the 2005 CT scan that found a broken left thighbone, the dying bone in his foot, the 130 walking sticks in his tomb and the malaria parasite DNA in his remains. The murder theory built on a 1968 X-ray of his skull is put on trial alongside the chariot crash, the hippopotamus, sickle cell disease and epilepsy theories. Then the story follows his rushed burial in the Valley of the Kings, the widow's letter and the murdered Hittite prince, Howard Carter's 1922 discovery, the legend of the curse, the 1925 examination that cut the mummy apart, and the evidence that his body burned inside its coffin. Which explanation convinces you, murder, chariot, hippo, sickle cell or malaria? Tell us in the comments, and subscribe to The Royal Deathbed for more documentaries on how rulers really died. The worst things anyone can prove were done to Tutankhamun were done after he died. He was rushed into a borrowed tomb, cut apart by the men who found him to reach his gold, and robbed of his chest by a thief. He's still down there in his glass case, in a tomb that was never meant for him.