Posted on 02/16/2010 7:56:30 AM PST by cajuncow
Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.
The findings were from two years of DNA testing and CT scans on 16 mummies, including those of Tutankhamun and his family, the team that carried out the study said in an article to be published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Dancin by the Nile,
The ladies love his style,
Rockin for a mile
He ate a crocodile...
Sounds like a victim of inbreeding.
royal blood incest....
I was also thinking about all that inbreeding down here in Louisiana, too. I’ve got some of those first cousins in the family tree. My excuse for being the way I am—mentally.
Just when you think the important stuff is being ignored!
Wow. I knew that "harelip" joke was old, but...
Geeez...hasn’t anyone heard of HIPAA around here?
I expect a lawsuit shortly, followed by a plague and swarms of locusts.
Oh, never mind...no plague and locusts, just lawyers...the 21st Century equivalent.
What? Tut had a wooden eye?
I thought he gave his life for tourism.
Evidence of ancient joke shakes archeological community; heiroglyphics translations to be revised..
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:’D
sciam Tutankhamen’s Familial DNA Tells Tale of Boy Pharaoh’s Disease and Incest http://bit.ly/apoF1L
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Yeah, because we all know King Tut liked to ride the dinosaurs, maybe it was a dinosaur that kicked him and broke his leg, I heard a moosetadon bit his sister once. ;)
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/2336/tut4105654af3.jpg
Here’s a link to a photo. I don’t see any hare on that lip.
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