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Mystery of King Tut's death solved?
ABC News (Via Yahoo) ^ | 9-14-2012 | Matthew Rosenbaum

Posted on 09/18/2012 1:40:31 PM PDT by Renfield

The mystery of King Tut's death might finally be solved, according to one scientist who argues that the secret to the young pharaoh's demise is hidden in plain sight.

Dr. Hutan Ashrafian, a lecturer and surgeon at the Imperial College London, says the key to the mystery lies in the art from the period, which depicted King Tut with highly feminine features, including enlarged breasts.

The enlarged breasts, he argues, are indicative of a condition known as gynecomastia, which, when added to a host of historical and familial evidence, indicates that Tutankhamun might have suffered and eventually died from temporal lobe epilepsy....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: egypt; godsgravesglyphs; tut
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In 2005 scientists reconstructed Tutankhamun’s face

1 posted on 09/18/2012 1:40:35 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping


2 posted on 09/18/2012 1:41:40 PM PDT by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: Renfield

3 posted on 09/18/2012 1:45:11 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (“We can’t just leave it (food choice) up to the parents.” moochele obozo 2/12/2012 (cnsnews))
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To: Renfield
they found he died from a fracture, he had a fracture on his leg

How does a leg break kill you?

4 posted on 09/18/2012 1:46:53 PM PDT by bigheadfred (evry day i'm shufflin')
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To: Renfield

I’d swear those are side-by-side photos of Boy George and Nancy Pelosi . . .


5 posted on 09/18/2012 1:48:23 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: bigheadfred
How does a leg break kill you?

I don't know. I do know that if you break your leg and have no pain killers, you'll wish you were dead.

6 posted on 09/18/2012 1:50:25 PM PDT by Nachoman (I HOPE we CHANGE presidents.)
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To: bigheadfred
“How does a leg break kill you?”

Depending on the type of break there could have been some internal bleeding at the site with a clot that later broke loose and entered the lungs a/o heart. That makes for a real short day as in dead.

7 posted on 09/18/2012 1:51:55 PM PDT by Polynikes (Hakkaa Palle)
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To: Renfield

Who cares? After all these years he’d probably be dead by now anyways. /s


8 posted on 09/18/2012 1:54:53 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Nachoman

They had plenty of cocaine.

Ima thinking the break didn’t kill him. Complications from the break, maybe.


9 posted on 09/18/2012 1:55:50 PM PDT by bigheadfred (evry day i'm shufflin')
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To: bigheadfred
How does a leg break kill you?

Internal bleeding, gangrene, other consequences of being thousands of years from modern medicine.

10 posted on 09/18/2012 1:56:50 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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To: Renfield

Pretty soon the next mystery will be why the world stood by knowing King Tut’s priceless artifacts would be destroyed by their current host government.


11 posted on 09/18/2012 1:57:56 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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To: bigheadfred

Blood clot....That’s how my uncle died...Fell off a ladder...


12 posted on 09/18/2012 2:03:57 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: bigheadfred

Fat embolism.


13 posted on 09/18/2012 2:04:46 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Take two Aspirin and call me in November - Obama for Hindmost.)
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To: ctdonath2

We probably can’t even imagine what is stolen by these archeologists.


14 posted on 09/18/2012 2:06:13 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: bigheadfred
How does a leg break kill you?

I forget the medical term, but a blood clot from a major leg injury can travel through the blood stream and get lodged in the Blood vessels supplying the brain and you die from a stroke.

15 posted on 09/18/2012 2:08:43 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: freedumb2003
Methinks the face needs to be longer and thinner, the nose wider. But I only play an expert in reconstruction.
16 posted on 09/18/2012 2:11:29 PM PDT by pepperdog ( I still get a thrill up my leg when spell check doesn't recognize the word Obama!)
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To: ctdonath2
"How does a leg break kill you?"

I suppose he could have been beaten with the bloody stump. ;-)

17 posted on 09/18/2012 2:12:30 PM PDT by Average Al (The Democrat party is a free range zoo.)
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To: Renfield

18 posted on 09/18/2012 2:20:18 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Scoutmaster

That, is a good one.


19 posted on 09/18/2012 2:20:46 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ctdonath2
I loved the Egyptian reports that none of the Tutankhamun artifacts were destroyed, as we watched the video clearly showing the famous figurine of Tut fishing from his boat in pieces on the floor . . .


20 posted on 09/18/2012 2:20:58 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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