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Why did King Tutankhamun became a king?

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Well King Tut was the really only son of his father, the current King of Egypt in Tut's lifetime, so he was basically the prince. When his father died, and when he was 10, he stepped up and became king.

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if you mean his NAME, before he became king it was Tutankhaten, after he became king it was Tutankhamun.


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