Tut, Tut, It’s The King

And now finally, you can see the golden boy, King Tut. The Egyptian government has finally let the world see the shriveled, shrunken, blackened face  and body of King Tut. His mummy is to be placed in a specially sealed, climate controlled  glass chamber in his tomb complex, in Luxor’s Valley Of The Kings.. Why would people pay money to see a blackened skull and bones?

This Boy King was of no consequence when he ruled in 1323 B.C. so what is this fascination with King Tut in modern times?
Tut.ankh.Amum ascended the throne at the age of nine and died at the age of nineteen. King Tut was a powerless little boy who sat on the powerful throne because heredity demanded that he do so. His reign was insignificant, his contribution to the  Egyptian empire and culture, zilch.  History tells us that all royal decisions were made by Ay, who was the power behind King Tut. When King Tut apparently fractured his left thighbone, the injury got infected, and the King died of gangrene; Ay was his eventual successor.
What is the fascination with King Tut, except for the fact that Howard Carter discovered Tut’s tomb, mostly intact, in November, 1922?
It is mystifying why people will travel all the way to Egypt and pay money to see a dead Boy King who is thousands of years old. Egypt is full of Mummies older than young  King Tut, if it’s ancient Mummies they are looking for!
Poor old Tut, there will be no final resting place for him. He now has been turned into an artifact for commercial purposes.
Now, is that anyway to treat a King?
   

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