If anyone is going to live to a ripe old age, it's going to be a king. You know, as long as security is pretty tight, he's got a poison checker, and his sister/wife doesn't try to kill him in his sleep.
Anyway, most pharaohs intended to live a long time because their entry into the afterworld required a massive tomb that took decades to build. Unfortunately for Tut, he reigned for just 10 years and died at the age of 19, so there really wasn't really enough time to construct a two-bedroom condo on the Nile, let alone a ginormous tomb out in the desert.
So Tut was laid to rest in a small tomb. According to Scientific American, his tomb had only four rooms, which is kind of too small for a middle class American couple, and practically microscopic for a pharaoh. It's not really clear if the tomb was just hastily built or if it was part of a larger tomb that was repurposed after his sudden death, but only one of the four rooms was painted with the standard-issue hieroglyphics and drawings of the king hunting ostriches and doing other kingly things, which seems to suggest that it was put together in haste. Sucks for the boy king and his afterlife, but the diminutive size of Tut's tomb is probably one of the reasons why it remained undiscovered for so many thousands of years.
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