The Mysteries Surrounding King Tut Have Finally Been Solved
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Feb 16 2010, 7:02 PM
One down ... four to go. During my lifetime there have been five great mysteries that I have pondered long and hard. The Titanic, JFK, Area 51, The Holy Grail and King Tut. Now thanks to the Discovery Channel (and DNA) one of those has been solved and there will be two specials airing about this "final quest."
The DNA tests determined that King Tut had a clubbed left foot and no use of his right foot, because he suffered from a lack of blood flow that leads to collapsed bones (avascular necrosis). Those ailments explain why 130 wooden sticks and staffs were found in his tomb.
The conditions would have weakened his body and immune system, but they wouldn't have been enough to kill him. Rather, the team suspects that Tut sustained a fall -- which explains the head trauma and broken leg discovered in a 1968 X-ray -- and succumbed to a serious malarial infection.
Tut and four other mummies tested positive for malaria tropica, the most severe form of the illness.
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One down ... four to go. During my lifetime there have been five great mysteries that I have pondered long and hard. The Titanic, JFK, Area 51, The Holy Grail and King Tut. Now thanks to the Discovery Channel (and DNA) one of those has been solved and there will be two specials airing about this "final quest."
The DNA tests determined that King Tut had a clubbed left foot and no use of his right foot, because he suffered from a lack of blood flow that leads to collapsed bones (avascular necrosis). Those ailments explain why 130 wooden sticks and staffs were found in his tomb.
The conditions would have weakened his body and immune system, but they wouldn't have been enough to kill him. Rather, the team suspects that Tut sustained a fall -- which explains the head trauma and broken leg discovered in a 1968 X-ray -- and succumbed to a serious malarial infection.
Tut and four other mummies tested positive for malaria tropica, the most severe form of the illness.
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