The Assassination of Tutankhamun

It was the middle of the night. A man made his way towards the bedroom of Tutankhamun, pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty. He pulled out a heavy weapon and ended the life of Tutankhamun with a strike at the base of his skull. But who was this man? Ay was a servant of King Tutankhamun’s family, possibly motivated by his involvement in a conflict between monotheism and polytheism: the beliefs that religion was either constituted by one or multiple gods. Shortly after the blow to Tutankhamun’s head, Ay forced Tutankhamun’s half sister Ankhesenamun into marriage and was quick to take over the throne. Malaria, a curvature to his spine, a fractured left leg and right knee, a missing breastbone and remnants of a rib cage - all found in Tutankhamun’s body. Is it possible that Ay was driven to the extreme of killing another man, in the name of status, social power and religion? Is there truth to Egyptologist Bob Brier’s theory? Is it possible that Brier has solved the mystery of King Tutankhamun’s death, and how reliable is the evidence after thousands of years?