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King Tut suffered 'massive' chest injury, new research reveals
Heritage Key ^
| Friday, November 5, 2010
| Owen Jarus
Posted on 11/12/2010 8:50:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv
One possibility that Dr. Harer ruled out is that of a chariot accident. "If he fell from a speeding chariot going at top speed you would have what we call a tumbling injury -- he'd go head over heels. He would break his neck. His back. His arms, legs. It wouldn't gouge a chunk out of his chest."
Instead, at his Toronto lecture, Harer brought up another, more exotic possibility -- that Tut was killed by a hippo.
It's not as far out an idea as it sounds, hippos are aggressive, quick and territorial animals, and there is an artefact in Tut's tomb which appears to show him hunting one of them...
"Hippos kill more people than any other animal, they are the most lethal animal in Africa (if not) the world," said Harer. "The victim suffers massive tearing injury and can actually be cut in half." Medical reports indicate that "even though they are running away from the hippo they typically suffer a frontal wound."
In Tut's case, if the hippo charged, his entourage may not have been able to get to him in time. "If he did have a club foot (as a recent medical report suggests) it would make him the slowest person getting out of the way -- the easiest person for the hippo to get."
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 18thdynasty; amarna; ancientautopsies; chest; earlofcarnarvon; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; hippo; hippopotamus; hippos; howardcarter; injury; king; kingtut; massive; research; suffered; tut; tutankhamun
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To: Salamander
"Im sure those findings are going over *real* well."Zahi Hawass won't allow the DNA research ( haplogroups) to be published.
I was really suprised to read in National Geographic that King Tut's mother or grandmother (can't remember which) has red hair. (Don't know how that slipped out)
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posted on
11/13/2010 9:57:01 AM PST
by
blam
To: MCH
The most dangerous animal to human civilization is a Liberal with his hand on your wallet..
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posted on
11/13/2010 10:35:19 AM PST
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: bigbob
He was murdered! A Hippo may have been a weapon of choice.
To: BlueDragon
a hippo bit my sister once... Was the Hippo named "Charlie?" - as in "Charlie bit me!"
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posted on
11/13/2010 11:16:33 AM PST
by
MCH
To: 50mm
No argument, here.....:-P
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posted on
11/13/2010 12:04:56 PM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: trisham
Why, if he weren’t nailed to the perch.....
[that’s going too far, isn’t it?....I can never tell]
;D
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posted on
11/13/2010 12:06:18 PM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: Salamander
Stones...glass houses...nuff said.
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posted on
11/13/2010 12:08:39 PM PST
by
50mm
(I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)
To: blam; SunkenCiv
“Zahi Hawass won’t allow the DNA research ( haplogroups) to be published.”
I’m shocked...SHOCKED, I tell ya!
Red hair?
Wouldn’t that automatically make her a Neanderthal?
:-P
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posted on
11/13/2010 12:08:43 PM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: Forward the Light Brigade
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posted on
11/13/2010 12:09:25 PM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: 50mm
Pfffft...you missed the most obvious retort:
Takes one to know one.
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posted on
11/13/2010 12:11:36 PM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: SunkenCiv
Why do hippos have flat feet?
From stamping out limping pharaohs.
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posted on
11/13/2010 12:15:28 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: trisham; 50mm; Salamander; peepaw
"
He may not respond."
He may, if we use his current screen name.
Paging Mr. peepaw.
Mr. peepaw, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
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posted on
11/13/2010 1:18:41 PM PST
by
Semper Mark
(Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
To: 50mm
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posted on
11/13/2010 1:21:02 PM PST
by
kanawa
(Obama - "The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.")
To: Salamander
"Wouldnt that automatically make her a Neanderthal?" At least a Republican....
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posted on
11/13/2010 1:22:39 PM PST
by
blam
To: Salamander
Can one go too far in this situation? :)
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posted on
11/13/2010 2:19:01 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Markos33; peepaw; Salamander
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posted on
11/13/2010 2:23:21 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: trisham
Yep. peepaw made a 1 post appearence just after Chet was ZOTted.
We thought it was mighty suspicious.
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posted on
11/13/2010 3:55:28 PM PST
by
Semper Mark
(Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
To: trisham
The distance depends entirely upon which kind of swallow we’re talking about and whether it’s laden or unladen.
[what a loverly bunch of coconuts!]
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posted on
11/13/2010 5:05:47 PM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: Trod Upon
Tut’s mummification got rushed; his (self-anointed?) successor performed the rites personally, according to the surviving art in Ai’s own tomb, which was later looted and busted up.
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posted on
11/13/2010 9:07:18 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: SIDENET
If hippos are outlawed, only outlaws wil- wait, what?
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posted on
11/13/2010 9:08:30 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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