

Yami Yugi was able to take control of Yugi's body while Yugi had the Puzzle. After solving it, his body bore host to part of Atem's soul, known as Yami Yugi. Yugi managed to solve the Puzzle, while under the pressure of getting money to pay Ushio's self-imposed bodyguard fee. He also feared that the Puzzle contained the power of the Shadow Game so he hoped Yugi would never solve it. Solomon repeatedly tried to convince Yugi to give up on the puzzle with no success. Solomon's grandson, Yugi, found the puzzle in the family game shop and spent eight years trying to solve it. Over the years, no one had been able to assemble the puzzle, Solomon believed that the Puzzle is simply impossible. In the 1960s, Solomon Muto retrieved the Millennium Pendant, now called the Millennium Puzzle in the Tomb of the Nameless Pharaoh who was Atem. The box containing the Puzzle's pieces had two messages written on it, " The person who solves this puzzle will have their wish granted." and " The one who solves me, will receive my dark knowledge and power." Each of them suffered mysterious deaths, with the last one uttering "The Shadow Games" in his dying breath. Originally, it was said that the Millennium Pendant had been discovered by a team of British archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings at the beginning of the 20th century. Atem's memory, including his name, was wiped, so that he could not recall the spell, to prevent the binding from ever being undone. He used his name as part of a spell that sealed Zorc's soul and his own in the Millennium Pendant, which was shattered and was laid to rest in his tomb. The Pendant was later stolen from teenage Atem, by Thief King Bakura, who used it and the other Millennium Items to Summon Zorc Necrophades.Ītem defeated Zorc at the cost of his own life. The Pendant was inherited by his son Atem. Together they fought off the attackers and saved Egypt.Īfter Aknamkanon became aware how the Items were created, he fell ill and died shortly afterward.

Pharaoh Aknamkanon was given the Pendant, while six priests were given the other six items. The items were created in order to protect Egypt from attackers. 3,000 years before present day events (5,000 in the dub), the Millennium Pendant and the other Millennium Items were forged in Kul Elna by sacrificing 99 souls of the Kul Elna villagers.
