The Murder Of Tutankhamen: A True Story, Bob Brier, BERKLEY Publishing Group, 2005, 0425206904, 9780425206904, 264 pages. A look at the last days of the ancient Egyptian draws on new medical and archaeological evidence that suggests that Tutankhamen suffered a brutal, untimely death that led to subsequent palace and political intrigue..

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"By the time you finish his intrigue-filled reconstruction of Tutankhamen's world--which includes such elements as teen-age love, religious heresy, the Orwellian rewriting of history and the desperate pleas of a terrified queen--you risk coming to care a good deal about the young Pharaoh's fate."--The Times

"The Murder of Tutankhamen observes the conventions of a whodunit: a compelling victim, a batch of suspects (each of whom might be the killer), a vivid setting, and a climactic gathering wherein an ace detective produces the evidence that indicts the assassin. However, the detective and the story are actual here, and it is through forensic evidence and scholarly sleuthing that Bob Brier assembles his persuasive conclusions."--The Boston Globe

"Respected Egyptologist Bob Brier, specialist in paleopathology and host of the Learning Channel's acclaimed series "The Great Egyptians," believes it can. Skillfully combining known historical events with evidence gathered by advanced technologies, Brier has re-created the suspenseful story of religious upheaval and political intrigue that likely resulting in the murder of the teenage king Tutankhamen." --Booklist* (starred review)

For decades after the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, the dazzling treasures found along with the distracted many of us from the actual events of Tutankhamen's life. But take a look at the body itself--cranialX-rays reveal a location on the back of the skull that may indicate a hemorrhage, perhaps one caused by a deliberate blow. The question thus arises: Was King Tut murdered?

Egyptologist Bob Brier specializes in paleopathology, the study of diseases in the ancient world. In essence, he performs high-tech autopsies on 3,000-year-old corpses. (He's also taken part in a re-creation of Egyptian mummification techniques, including the extraction of the brain through the nasal passages.) Here, he examines the X-rays and other photographic evidence, correlating it with the research of other Egyptologists, and concludes that Tutankhamen was the victim of political and religious intrigues that developed into a fatal conspiracy. True crime buffs and historians alike will find much to like in Brier's fast-paced recounting of his investigations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

YA-Was Tutankhamen murdered? Brier presents his hypothesis in an engrossing tale that moves along at the pace of a well-crafted whodunit. In lucid prose, he gives the lay person an informative overview of Egyptian history prior to Tutankhamen's reign with special emphasis on his father, Amenhotep IV, who instituted the cult of Aten. As little is known about Tutankhamen's life, Brier reconstructs from wall paintings and hieroglyphic tablets and columns a perfectly plausible and fascinating picture of the boy-pharaoh's friendship with, then marriage to his half-sister Ankhesenamen and their daily life. Before reaching his 20th birthday, Tutankhamen died. His Grand Vizier, Aye, was named pharaoh, Ankhesenamen petitioned her sworn enemies, the Hittites, for a prince to become her consort, and this prince was killed en route to Egypt. A logical case is presented for murder: X rays of Tutankhamen's skull reveal what might be interpreted as a blow to his head; the Grand Vizier who succeeds the childless pharaoh wanted power; Ankhesenamen strangely disappeared after an arranged marriage to his successor. Brier obviously knows his subject and is impassioned by it. Readers who enjoy history or true-crime stories will be intrigued by this work. A detailed bibliography invites further reading.

Granted the evidence presented by this book is by no means conclusive, I've got to say that if more history books were written with this much verve, fewer kids would graduate school convinced that "history is boring." Brier loves what he does, and he's very well-read in it, and it shows. You get a real feel for the political intrigue of the time right after the heresies of Amarna, and he presents the information in such a way that you never forget that there are actually human personalities associated with these events. The book does a great job getting across the flavor of life in that time, and certainly it does convince me at least that something fishy was going on at the end of Tut's reign.

However, that said, I didn't find any of the medical/forensic evidence presented even slightly convincing (and the opening chapter with its dramatic film noir reenactment of the "murder" was a bit much). Tutankhamen's death itself at a young age isn't even suspicious given that there is a good chance he inherited Marfan Syndrome from his father, a disability which has an excellent track record of killing young. And given that the skull and body were grossly damaged by the funerary practices of the time, I don't feel that any solid conclusions can be drawn from the state of either. The political evidence that something fishy was happening is a lot more compelling than the physical evidence -- and Brier knows his Egyptian politics.

Brier clearly knows Egypt well, and loves it, and that intellect and enthusiasm shines through every word, making this book a more than worthwhile read as long as you have your critical filters in place. I look forward to more work from Brier. Even if you don't agree with his conclusions, you've got to admit -- if more historians were this engaging and presented history with this much texture and life, history'd be a whole lot more fun in school, wouldn't it?

In this work, the author claims that Tutankhamen was murdered, in fact the subtitle of the book is "a true story". Well, emphasis on the "Story". Using a single piece of evidence, allegedly a swelling on the base of the mummy's skull, he spins a tale of palace intrigue and political assasination. This is certainly a good read, and a good introduction for someone to , but it's not history. There are some details that the author has left out or altered to make his point: first, he uses the funeral portraiture on Tutankhamen's tomb to hypothesize that Ay was setting himself up as successor. Actually, in many tombs the "opening of the mouth" ceremony has the son of the deceased present. If anything, Ay is showing his dedication to the king, portraying himself as the loyal subject-the arranger of the funeral. By putting his face on the wall, he reminds Tutankhamen who performed the burial. This may well be a way to ensure that "Tut" will remember Ay when he is dead. Secondly the author uses the term "true of voice" in describing on of Tutankhamen's names. Not true, well not true while the king was alive. "True of voice" is used when meeting Anubis, Thoth, and the heart is weighed against Ma'at; it's strictly funereal. Speaking of Ay, there's simply no way to know what his motivations were, if any. He left no record, and no other record has yet been found. Finally, the comments of another reviewer concerning efforts to review the xrays and analysis raise suspicion. Any scientist who refuses to release his data for scrutiny by colleagues must make one skeptical about any conclusions drawn. I think the best analysis that could have been made would have been to take samples from the mummy for forensic exam. If testing showed that Tutankhamen did not die from disease, then the author could have moved from that premise to the one he espouses here. The strengths of the book are in the fusing of several different disciplines to attempt a solution of an ancient question. The description of day-to-day life plus the details of Akhenaten alone make the book worth reading. Read more ›

This is a convincing and thorough hypothesis that is not fully proven. Yet Brier presents a case stronger than any other yet presented. I would be remiss to say this should be one's only book on Egyptian history (it is far from detailed), but I do not think one could study Egypt without reading The Murder of Tutankhamen.

I am aware of the rumblings inside the Egyptology community on the lack of precision in Brier's evidence. I am not endorsing all of Brier's reasoning, especially his extraneous investigation of the psychology of Aye and the supposed evidence presented in the Opening Of The Mouth ceremony drawing on Tutankhamen's tomb wall. However, I do find Brier's theoretical reasoning plausible and well-argued. I do not think this is a scientific book, rather it is an investigative inquiry. It may not be the truth, but Brier's analysis has more proof than theories that Tut died of plagues or diseases. (Michael R. Allen in SpinTech Magazine, July 1998)

I read it in hopes for an accurate, and unbiased yet entertaining narrative of the aftermath of the Amarna period and the political intrigue it entailed. I was sorely dissappointed. Much that is only theory or speculation is treated as hard fact in this book. Briar insists that Ankhesenamen wrote the letters to the Hittite king, and that the desperation in these letters is hard proof of the murder of Tuthankamun. That she was the author of these letters is mere specuation. In fact, many prominent Egyptologists firmly beleive that it was either Nefertiti or Merytaten who wrote these pleas. Nowhere are these alternative theories even mentioned...or refuted in this text. Citations are rarely present for many things that Briar presents as firm fact, and when they are present, facts are twisted so that they support Briar's theory. When this text is not bombarding the reader with skewed facts, it is trying to manipulate with sentimentalism. The many melodramatic narratives of Tutankhamn dying pitifully in the arms of a sobbing Ankhesenamen bring the book close to the realms of fiction, and further cloud the fact.

"If you look at the skull, if you examine the letter from the young queen, if you hold the royal ring in your hand, it's clear that something shocking and violent happened to King Tut." -Dr. Bob Brier Three thousand years ago, a nineteen-year-old pharaoh died mysteriously. Hastily, a commoner's tomb was readied for his burial, his body mummified, fabulous jewels and furniture gathered, the tomb sealed. Then: silence. In the years that followed, almost every trace of the young king and his wife was literally erased. In 1922, the small tomb was uncovered; inside lay the most glorious royal Egyptian treasures ever unearthed, and Tut's place in history was restored. So dazzling was the treasure-the golden coffin, the mask, the jewels, the vases-that it was easy to forget that almost nothing was revealed about the man buried there. What really happened to King Tut? His brutal murder and his queen's subsequent frantic overtures to neighboring kings are just two of Dr. Bob Brier's startling allegations as he pieces together the evidence and comes back with a convincing verdict.

Tutankhamen conjurs all the fascination that people have with Egypt. Ironically very little is known about the boy king.He was born in one of the most traumatictimes in Egypts 3000 year history. The nations religion was changed to montheism, as was the nations capital city. Leading egypotologist Bob Brier brings to life the dramatic story of Tutankhamen , the " boy king " who died mysteriously at the very young age of twenty.

Dr. Bob Brier has spent more than twenty years studying , focusing on paleopathology, the study of disease in the ancient world. He is one of the world's most authoritative and respected Egyptologists and the author of two previous books, Ancient Egyptian Magic and Egyptian . Currently, he hosts the Learning Channel's most successful series ever,The Great Egyptians. Dr. Brier is chairman of the philosophy department at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University, in Brookville, New York.

I love this book. I am a very busy mom and I don't get alot of time to myself. This book is great even if you only have 20 minutes at a time to read it. Dr. Briar writes more like a story-teller than a history professor. He takes us beyond the grandeur and shows us the "humsn" side of Ancient Egyptian life as well as the politics of archeology. Its captivating. We have 2 of Dr. Briar's lecture series on DVD so I was already a fan and the book did not change that. If I had professors like him in college I'd probably have been a History major.

At the time it was written, this book made a reasonably strong argument that the young Pharaoh appeared to have been murdered, and after considering the motivations and opportunities to commit the crime of his widow, his Vizier and successor Ay or Aye, and Ay's successor General Horemheb, the author came to the view that Ay was the most likely culprit.

With apologies to the author for comparing this volume with a book which is enormously inferior as a work of scholarship, if you have read James Patterson's bestseller The Murder of King Tut which was published a few years later, the two books looked at essentially the same evidence and independently arrived at similar conclusions on broadly comparable grounds. Indeed, the main reason I acquit Patterson of plagiarising the analysis in this book, is that if his bestseller had been based on this much more thorough, comprehensive and meticulously accurate account of one view of the evidence, he would probably have avoided most of his mistakes.

At a distance of three tbousand years relatively little evidence survives from the 18th Dynasty period of Egyptian history, and for reasons we will come to, that particularly applies to the so called "Armana period" which includes the reign of King Tut. We are dependent on the opinions of experts to interpret what evidence does survive. And quite a few of Robert Brier's views expressed in this book are not shared by the majority of his fellow experts, particularly as they affect the man he accuses of the murder, the Visier Ay or Aye, against whom the author appears to have quite a strong animus. http://archbd.net/1f7.pdf http://archbd.net/fhn.pdf http://archbd.net/a5g.pdf http://archbd.net/g32.pdf http://archbd.net/hgb.pdf http://archbd.net/hc3.pdf http://archbd.net/eij.pdf http://archbd.net/7ge.pdf http://archbd.net/k2.pdf http://archbd.net/5nm.pdf