What Happened to “King Tut?” There is no true explanation or clear reasoning on how King Tutankhamen died suddenly, approximately at the age of 18. Theorists have yet to come to any clear explanation on how he suddenly died. Two theories that make the most sense to me are that he died from some sort of sickness, such as malaria combined with a degenerative bone disease, which some studies suggest, or a broken leg, which later lead to infection, that has been discovered and recent autopsies. The theory revolving around malaria has been one of the the lasting reasoning’s on how he died, which was accelerated by a broken leg, recent studies suggest. Several mummies buried along with the remains of King Tut have been examined and 4 out of the 11, including King Tuts remains, showed strands of malaria. In fact, 4 of the 11 mummies, including King Tut’s, had genetic traces of malaria tropica, the most severe form of the infection. He was also plagued with avascular bone necrosis, a condition in which diminished blood supply to the bone leads to serious weakening or destruction of tissue. These two findings have deemed theorists to believe that these findings are a likely reason to his death.
In recent studies, Ashraf Selim, a radiologist at Kasr Eleini Teaching Hospital at Cairo University in Egypt, along with a team of scientist set up a noninvasive CT scanner in Luxor to perform a full-body scan on the king's remains, obtaining about 1,900 digital cross-sectional images. The scientist main focus was on the left thigh area, where a fracture was observed, which was the likely cause of death. A thin coating of embalming resin around the leg break suggests that King Tut leg was broken not to long before death, which further lead to infection or other complications, resulting in his untimely death. ‘The resin flowed through the wound and got into direct contact with the fracture and became solidified, something we didn't see in any other area," said Selim. “We could not find any signs of healing of the bone. It's probably what killed him,"
In my opinion, the most logical explanation of his death is a combination of both theories listed above. It seems his whole family was plagued with disease and deformities, probably from incest as some studies suggest. Some sort of sickness, like malaria, struck him, followed by the injury of his leg, which never healed, and further cause his sickness to accelerate. The combination of both these symptoms added to his unfortunate death.

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