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1.) I am Gregory Piquet (pronounced PK), and ...I'll say I'm 18 - 8 days away, who cares?
2.) He was about nine years old at his succession, but probably didn't have any real power until much later.
3.) He died when he was about eighteen or nineteen years old.
4.) The cause of Tutankhaten's death has yet to be known. Theories, however, of a blow to the back of the head being the cause of his demise have recently been dismissed, thanks to recent CT scans taken in January.
5.) Nope .
6.) November 4, 1922, by Howard Carter .
7.) Political reasons, like everything else! The priests of the monotheist religion worshiping Aten perhaps did not wish to be dismissed as Tutankhaten would have been apt to switch the religion back to normal after his father's rule for political reasons of his own.
8.) I love the culture, and the mystery - but it's the hieroglyphs that keep me occupied!
9.) Well, it's a tie between two things. Tutankhaten was his original name; however, after his death, or perhaps late in his life (I don't know), his name was changed to Tutankhamun. Ankhaten translates loosely into "Life of Aten", which was the sun disc worshiped by the monotheist religion. Ankhamun translates into "Life of Amun" (e.g. Amun Re, the Sun god). The second thing is that people actually care about Tutankhaten. He was a sickly little man who died because he wasn't strong enough to survive. No one cared about him for thousands of years, and when Carter found the tomb, people became full blown Egyptologists because they knew a little bit about someone else's lucky stroke that wasn't that great of a find, anyways. Besides, in ancient Egyptian culture, silver was revered as more valuable than gold.
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