in what year was king tut buried
âNefertiti will never be buried in the Valley of the Kings,â he told AFP. âThe lady was worshipping Aton with Akhenaten for years. The priests would never allow her to be buried in the Valley of the Kings,â he said. Tutankhamun died aged 19 in 1324BC after just nine years on the throne. His final resting place was discovered by another British Egyptologist, Howard Carter, in 1922.