What Killed People Who Opened King Tut's Tomb?

This picture shows the moment of Tutankhamun’s tomb opening. It’s the only tomb found in ancient Egypt that remained intact for three thousand years. It appeared to be full of gold and artifacts. However, at least thirteen people who were present at the tomb's opening died soon after. And a rumor about "the curse of the Pharaohs" spread all over the world.
In addition, the researchers of Tutankhamun’s tomb studied the mummy, examined the attributes surrounding it, and noticed that everything was way different from what it was supposed to be. Ancient Egyptians believed that a pharaoh became close to gods after his death and spoke to them on behalf of his people That’s why the mummification process was treated with special care, and tombs were decorated with great reverence.
But why did they make an exception for Tutankhamun? Why did Osiris have his fingers cut off? And why does Tutankhamun’s mummy baffle historians to this day?

[bigdaddyswole]

Imagine being a God to your people and 3000 years later some guy on YouTube calls your dead body “of low quality.” 💀

[Markkiisi]

If you die 16 years after participating in the opening of the tomb, I think its safe to say there's no connection between the events

[mizzysparrots]

Poor king tut. He never stood a chance. He’s the product of multiple generations of incest, which explains his deformities and sudden death at a young age. He was also made to marry his half sister, they had twins who couldn’t survive. Most likely because of, yet again, incest. If ancient Egyptians weren’t so greedy and wanted to keep their gold to their family only, they may still be alive today. Incest is what brought down the entire Egyptian empire. It all ended with Tut because his heirs didn’t survive, and thus no more Egyptian royals. All they had to do was introduce new blood into their lineage. Lol

[Tabth]

I love how the first thing people think of is a curse, rather than a disease that was trapped within the tomb, bacteria, mold, etc. Lots of stuff would be polluting the air that you are breathing in, after opening a 3000+ year old coffin, wouldn't you think?
Also, I honestly feel really bad for King Tut- he died so young, suffered a lot throughout life, and even after his death, his body was immensely disrespected.
Also as someone else mentioned, merely dying quite some years later does not mean "oh, it's because that guy opened King Tut's tomb!" No, it means that nobody is immortal, and everyone dies at some point.

[ComicalRealm]

the egyptians were really out there making the burial of their king like a last minute assignment

[Ash_n_dust]

"What killed people who opened king Tut's tomb?"
My dumb brain: THE SMELL

[dillon]

"They found themselves in a small cramped room that looked like a warehouse." I don't think I have ever thought of a warehouse as a small cramped room...

[dishwashermadman]

Imagine being the most insignificant pharaoh who isn't even buried in the valley of the kings and thousand years later you are the most famous.

[jwentup]

My grandfather was there too, luckily he was spared from the curse. Televisions do help save lives

[wilfordbrimley]

Tut: Big important king
Also Tut: massively disrespected multiple times at death

[randy_hawkins]

There were actually four cursed items found within Tut's tomb that were kept secret from the press. Each of the four cursed items were discovered at the four cardinal directions within the tomb. They are small standing sculptures held up by its base, which had the ominous words carved around it promising swift death and retribution upon the souls of any who dared disturb the tomb of the young pharoh.

[imastronomist]

The King never ever thought that people would watch him after 3000 yrs later 😱 🤯

[geometricart]

I love how they attribute the deaths of those who entered were the result of some kind of curse when in reality only 6 of 26 were killed and that was over the course of an entire decade.

[gyrthez]

Ok so facts known:
- Chest crushed
- Had malaria
- Had a weakened immune system and brittle bones due to genetic defects

If he had malaria with a weakened immune system, he was likely very weak, so he probably wouldn't be around racing a chariot and such unless it was needed. Perhaps he was being transported by chariot to some place that would hopefully be able to help him recover from the malaria. As kings generally moved in caravans, not just a singular chariot for security purposes, there would have been other chariots at least behind and at both sides of his. He may have reached a certain point and fallen out of the chariot because he was too weak to keep holding on, or the terrain was too bumpy, or he lost his grip. Obviously because king being weak is a pretty urgent matter, plus being in the middle of the desert, they'd have been travelling as quickly as possible, and so when he fell off of the chariot, the chariot behind him unintentionally ran over him because there was no time to stop. Due to his brittle bones, his chest was crushed. They probably noticed and went somewhere closer by to get more urgent medical attention, not being able to tell that he was already dead, and when they got there, the person tending to him could have thought it was a heart-based problem, or maybe his chest was crushed so badly that his heart was just mush and they had to remove it in order to clean it up and make mummification easier.

It's likely the chest crushing that killed him, because of how they rushed to bury him, whereas his ancestors had their tombs worked on over a way longer period prior to their own deaths. 100% something that they couldn't predict; which is why it's likely the chest because a sickly person dying from illness isn't unpredictable.

[m.ramos]

I was lucky to visit both tomb and his mommy ( they keep them at two different museums). It was absolutely fascinating. The tour guide said something very interesting! He said he doesn’t even believe we know 5% of ancient Egypt secrets. I

[adraedin]

If you watched the entire video and feel like you didn't get the answer you were expecting, that makes tu(t) of us.

[iamnao..]

have humans ever wondered that Egypt didn't have our medicine knowledge and he could have a bad disease (that the egyptians wouldn't know it was a disease), and that' because he was locked away and with extra protection, and reopening his tomb could bring a disease to the world that didn't exist anymore?

[bleyzerplayz]

Quick question, how are we so sure that it's Tut's body and not somebody else's? What if his actual grave is much deeper under the found grave? What if he was never actually given a good burial, because he was more of a puppet, which would be one reason why he would have gotten such a burial, due to rivalry. What are your thoughts?

[nicoleboger]

Imagine learning about a country or people without disturbing the dead, letting them rest in peace.

[lucatheitalian]

Quick backstory about why tut’s tombe is such a mess: he died very young and unexpected so they didn’t have a tombe Made for him yet. Sinds he was so young he didn’t have kids so there wasn’t a clear new follower to become leader op Egypte. So his second in command would be the most likely follower for tut. But he was on the egyptian border fighting with the hadrians so he couldn’t plan the burriel of tut (the burrier of the deceased emperor shall become the new emperor to ancient egyptian rules) so the next persoon in line, a very high ranked politician of sorts rushed the burrial and used a second hand coffin, a coffin holder that was Only partially finished, the politician even switched tombes with tut’s burrial tombe. That is why the tombe is so small and also very different to other tombes of big emperors of egypt. The mummification was also rushed and there are even rumours a lot of the gifts in tut’s tombe wheren’t even supposed to be his but his gifts wheren’t Made yet.

Thanks for Reading and I hope this gives you more understanding of tut’s weird tombe.
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