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Re:King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms by dominotw on Saturday June 04, 2016 @10:18AM (#11836412)
>Tutankhamun is just a short-lived pharaoh who returned to normalcy.

Do you think he was he was too young( too developmentally challenged?) to be making such momentous decisions. I've heard that it was mostly his mentors and generals ( HOremHeb ?) making those decisions.

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Re:King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms by philwelch on Saturday June 04, 2016 @01:08PM (#11837025)
I'm not an Egyptologist but Tutankhamun was 9 when he became Pharoah and it's hard to imagine any civilization letting a 9 year old actually run things. I'm sure there was a long regency. Keeping in mind his reign (and life) suspiciously ended at age 18, the circumstantial evidence would suggest that he was never really in charge.
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