Why Let Your Children Live When You Can Mummify Them With You?

DNA tests have recently begun to determine the lineage of two fetuses buried in the tomb of King Tut, but it is already being speculated that the unborn children are the offspring of King Tut himself.


(So adorable.)






Some experts believe that if the children are not Tut's than they were probably placed in the tomb to allow Tut to live as a newborn in the afterlife (why would you want to live as a newborn for eternity? If these aren't Tut's children then the stupid Egyptians really screwed him over.)

You may be asking yourself why a king, with no children born to carry out his lineage, would mummify his only two children? One reason, which many experts believe, is because the two children both died as babies, probably stillborn. How you can determine such a thing, I'm not quite sure, but that is what many people believe.

I think the more reasonable explanation, and if this is the case I'm with Tut on this one, is that he just want to be buried with all of his possessions. Screw everyone else. King Tut, like any rational man, wanted to be buried along with everything he owned, including his children. Also, if he has to be mummified, why should his children be spared the same fate.

It could also be that King Tut was just such a loving father he didn't want his children growing up without their true father. As such, he had them mummified and buried along side him. King Tut was simply afraid that his children would grow up without their father and not knowing the ways of the world, and so he wrapped them up for all of eternity. It's what any good father would want.