Boy Wonder
‘FROM Mrs Dixons shoulder, we move to King Tuts broken leg.
King Tut should have gone private |
The Guardian reports that Tutankhamun, the worlds charismatic boy king, was not murdered, but died from natural causes.
A computer topography scan has revealed that although there were a couple of loose bone fragments in the mummys skull, the Egyptian tyro was not killed by a blow to the head.
The new thinking is that King Tuts thigh bone snapped after a forceful blow.
A team of archaeologists have scanned the remains and concluded that although the break itself would not have been life-threatening, infection might have set in.
Proponents of the new theory say that the wound on the thigh became infected, and the 19-year-old would have soon died.
It just might have been that Kig Tut was in some kind of hospital when the infection – perhaps a bug not too dissimilar to MRSA superbug – took a fatal hold.
Or he died waiting for an operation…’
Posted: 9th, March 2005 | In: Uncategorized Comment | TrackBack | Permalink