Vintage View: Tut-tut

Kya deLongchamps explores a curious moment in the afterlife of King Tutankhamun.

The last of the Thutmosid family line and son of Akhenaton and his sister, (Tut went on to openly wed his own half-sister), Tutankhamun (1341-1323 BC) rose to the throne of Egypt at the age of nine.

He was relatively tall for the time at 5’11, with buck-teeth, a club-foot and scoliosis of the spine significant enough to require a cane. Given the cleft palette found when his stripped remains were fully examined, he presumably talked with a marked lisp.