I’ve read conflicting reports about whether or not Tuthankhamun was deformed. What is actually known?

Answer 1

The tomb of King Tut was founded by Carter in the early 1920s in the Valley of the Kings. Since then the tomb and the actual body of the pharaoh have been shrouded in mystery. First of all, it is probably the most famous find in the history of Archaeology. Not because King Tut was particularly famous or well known, but because it is the only tomb in the Valley of the Kings that was found intact with all of the gilded grave goods. All of the other Valley of the King's tombs had been ransacked in antiquity by grave robbers who paid officials to learn the site and layout of the tombs. The actual mummified body of the Tut was probably not deformed although a an anomaly was found on his skull, perhaps a wound that may have killed him. The body itself was not deformed. Tut was perhaps the son of Akhenaten who was a very infamous ruler whose wife was Nefertiti, herself very famous because of her beauty. Akhenaten during his reign destroyed all of the temples of the Egyptian pagan gods and established Amun-Re as the only God. This might me considered the first example on Monotheism in the Ancient Near East. Tut, his probable son was, in part, responsible to destroying the works of his father and re-establishing all of the pagan gods and their priests, much to their delight. However, Tut only reigned for a very short time, as a member of the 18th Dynasty and is not know for much else except of course for his Tomb. He did have two children with his wife Ai. If you are interested their is a new and very good monograph recently published by a famous Egyptian archaeologist called, Discovering Tutankhamun.