Did Tutankamon die murdered?

By Marcelino Ortiz
Translated by Ernesto Gutiérrez Pino
Special Service of AIN

An old inspector of Scotland Yard, Graham Melvin, and a British retired neurologist, Ian Isherwood believe they have discovered the mystery of Tutankamon´s death.

This dark Pharaoh of the XVIII dynasty that reigned a dozen of years around 1350 BC, and who died when he was 18 or 20 years old, became in a celebrity when his tomb was found in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt, in 1922.

’’The gold shines everywhere’’, exclaimed Howard Crankcase the English egiptolist when he discovered the fabulous treasure buried with the dead. The young Egyptian sovereign’s premature death is today one of the most kept mysteries in history, but as it seems, the light clarifies things.

How did Tutankamon die?
After many years of uncertainty, it seems to be that two Englishmen have found the key.

‘’Tutankamon was murdered’’, affirm the investigators Ishewood and Melvin and to prove it, they were helped by X- rays that showed, behind the victim's skull, a double fracture, according to them it was made by a hit.

Who would be benefited with this crime?... Graham Melvin suspects about a high dignitary, the general Ay, as well as of Horemheb, boss of Tutankamon´s army. Although it is ignored which of these two accomplices performed the fatal hit, they shared the murder.

Savored Intrigues behind Tutankamon

The main beneficiaries with Tutankamon´s death, assure the English investigators, were the general Ay and the boss of Tutankamon´s army, Horemheb.

The first one because reigned after the adolescent Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty and he married with the widow, but as he already had an advanced age, he died very soon, and he gave the throne to the second.

This courtier intrigue didn't have as objective to allow the usurper to become only a Pharaoh, due to the fact that this position mainly granted him the right to restore lastingly the order and the former official religion to the God Amon, whose religion Tutankamon´s stepfather and predecessor Akhenaton, had substituted for the monotheistic cult of the solar disk, Aton.

According to later studies, the assertion of the English investigators is given as truthful, because the double fracture behind the skull could not happen for a fall, but for an overwhelming hit perpetrated by the hand of another man.