14. His Short Reign Was Very Important
King Tut ascended to the throne when he was only 9 or 10 years old and died when he was probably about 19. His reign was relatively short, lasting only ten years at the most. He probably was not a great military general, given the deformities he inherited, which probably put him in immense pain and kept him from ever riding in a chariot. There were some small military campaigns fought against the Hittites, the archrival of the ancient Egyptians, but other than that, the reign of King Tut was reasonably uneventful. It was almost entirely unremarkable.
Usually, history remembers kings and pharaohs who fought great battles and made huge conquests. King Tut probably didn’t do any of those things, yet he is one of the most recognizable royals in all of history. What he did that was so remarkable is he restored the polytheistic worship that his father had previously abolished. He had people rebuild temples and priesthoods restored so that the gods would not abandon the people, as they had feared. In doing so, Tut restored the ma’at, or universal harmony, of his kingdom, realigning it with the land of the gods and bringing it back into spiritual balance and harmony.