Tutankhamun (/ËtuËtÉnkÉËËmuËn/ ; alternatively spelled with Tutenkh- , -amen, -amon) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled ca. 1332â1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. He is colloquially referred to as King Tut.
Horses can eat meat and have been trained to eat meat in high altitude and extremely cold environments. As a matter of fact Shackleton took horses with him to Antarctica.
It's believed that humans have eaten horse meat since prehistoric times, but a modern distaste for eating horse dates back to 732 A.D. That's the year that Pope Gregory III sent a letter to his buddy Boniface that said the ritual consumption of horse meat was a pagan practice that had to be abolished.