As such, it’s fair to picture the young ruler as a man — but King Tut took the throne when he was just 9 years old — and died only a decade later. Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian by blood.

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Given that the young pharaoh ascended to the throne at just nine years ... Queen Nefertiti and King Tutankhamun are two of ancient Egypt’s most iconic figures. Nefertiti, renowned for her ...

British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team of excavators opened the doors to the sarcophagus of the ruler itself.