The Curse on the Tomb of King Tutankhamen Death Shall Come on Swift Wings To Him Who Disturbs the Peace of That was supposedly engraved on the Tomb of King Tutankhamen’s, or King Tut as most of you know. The King was only nineteen when he died. People say that he was murdered by his enemies. The ancient Egyptians thought of their Kings as Gods and worshipped them. So when their Kings would die they had a process of burial that they had done. The Ancient Egyptians would first preserve their King’s bodies by embalming them, and taking out special organs in the King’s body and placing the organs in special containers that would