How They Croaked: King Tut By milip03 Jan 1, 1323 King Tut died (BC) NOTE Date and month are inaccuate, this is in 1323 BC He was 19 years old when he died Jan 1, 1333 Tut became king (BC) Tut became king when he was nine years old Jan 1, 1342 King Tut was born (BC) NOTE King Tut was actually born in 1342 BC in Egypt Jan 1, 1922 Howard Carter found Tut's tomb under a lot of sand. He and his team did an autopsy on him (AD) Jan 1, 1968 Experts X-rayed Tut's mummy (AD) Jan 1, 1978 Scientists removed his body from his stone box again (AD)_ Jan 1, 2005 CT scan was tried out on Tut (AD) Jan 1, 2009 Tut's genetic fingerprint showed he had Koehler disease (AD)