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Historical Love Story
Tutankhamunu is 13th Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of New Kingdom. His tomb was discovered by a team led by Howard Carter on October 28th, 1922. There has been much speculation about the King's life and his death. Tutankhamunu became the king at the age of 10. Numerous research has led to the facts that he died at the age of 19 due to blow to the head, battle wound or a chariot accident. On November 11-19 Dr Douglas Derry and Dr Saleh Hey Hamdu as along with Carter and other expedition team began to examine the Mummy. The Mummy was appeared to be anioning oil made the Mummy stick with the casket. Thus mummification was essentially a failure,as excess of oils and unguents adversely affected the corpse. After much struggle, the casket was opened,it contained a body of 5 feet 6 Inches with a slightly curved spine, gold jewellery, daggers and a piece of Armour. A golden dagger and a Iron Dagger of significance were also found from the casket
(So far , we are dealing with Historical facts of King Tutankhamunu. Reference Wikipedia. From now let's deal with fiction.
Genre of this story : Relationship, Love and Philosophy but certainly not crime)

In the 14-13th BC, The Gold dagger went missing from The palace of New Kingdom of Egypt during the period of 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt. It was found in the tomb of
Tutankhamunu . This leads to the conclusion that King Tutankhamunu was murdered, but it's not the case. This is due to the following facts not adding up.
1. The failure of the mummification process raises the doubts, that it was deliberately done, do that body will not be recognisable in the future.
2. The body found was 5 feet 6 Inches with Curved spine. The person with Curved spine does not match the physical qualities of a Pharaoh. The King Tutankhamunu was rumoured to be 6-7 feet height by some accountsvor 4-5 feet height by other accounts , but anywhere closer to 5 feet 6 Inches. This may explain the curved spine, as the casket may be prepared for a shorter person. If the person inside the casket is not Tutankhamunu, who is that person. More importantly what happened to King Tutankhamunu)
3. He was buried in a Non Royal tomb, inside of the Pyramid.
It was after a much research, the world scientists came to the conclusion, that King Tutankhamunu became king at the age of 10, died at the age of 19 due to natural causes like Malaria, sickle cell disease, died in the war or was murdered. But the mystery which seems to be solved, has nagging doubts. The tomb of Tutankhamunu is the only not to be vandalised by grave robbers.

The Tutankhamunu became the ruler at a young age and did not get the love and warmth from others especially from his parents and relatives. The King wad responsible for altering the Egyptian culture to a great extent and changing the political capital from Akhenaten to Thebes. He found true love with a Girl from Thebes. They lived happily ever after in a distance Kingdom. The King eloped with his lover, creating a power vaccum. The malaria outbreak provide a means of solution. A person who died of Malaria was buried as Tutankhamunu and Ay took over the reins of the New World of Egypt. Since, the advisors and other minsers would not say their Pharaoh eloped or desserted them in times of need to marry the girl of his love. However we shall not be harsh on 19 year old Pharaoh who had fold love and was relling with extensive stress of being a ruler during the most harsh pandemic ever in the history of Egypt. As we have come through this Covid, we want to be loved and show the warmth to carry through the day. The Pharaoh needed love and compassion which he found in her. But the final nail in the coffin came , when the Golden dagger went missing or was it something else.
The golden dagger may have been the first love messenger. But who is she, for whom Tutankhamunu abandoned his Pharaohship and choose a simple life. We may never know or may find out if we followed the journey of Tutankhamunu after he escaped the Egypt with the Golden dagger. But how it ended in the casket, was it presented by Tutankhamunu as a Gift to a person for helping his love. Then , did that person was killed or was he suffering from Malaria when he helped Tutankhamunu to live happily with his lover.
The theory that Tutankhamunu found true love, went to live happily with his lover in a distance world, unwilling to be the ruler of nation dying due to a disease and leaving the throne for the next ruler Ay. Ay managed the rule and brought a stop to the spread of Malaria.
Now the questions are
who is the lover of Tutankhamunu
Where did the go to live after they eloped
What is full love story of Tutankhamunu and Ellore(fictitious name)
Is it true Tutankhamunu was smitten by the love bug, if yes why it has been unraveled yet
The answer to the last question is we are not seeing with the broader eye, when looking at our past. Our assumption that past is murked with negativity and that Tutankhamunu was found in that tomb found by Mr Carter. If we consider it might not be Tutankhamunu in the Grave found by Mr Carter,then history has much more offers on Love, happiness and Relationships or else we would have perished by now. Since we are here, Tutankhamunu and Ellore ' s true love need by discovered
TO BE CONTINUED

© Sathyanarayanan Keerthi