Ruling from age nine and dying from a hippopotamus bite; here are 6 curiosities of Tutankhamun’s rule

Death caused by hippopotamus

Historians believe that King Tut may have been killed by a hippopotamus. That assumption is based on the missing heart or chest of the boy-king. Egyptologists reckon his body being embalmed without the parts could have been as a result of a hunting accident where a hippopotamus bit his chest.

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