Yeah but it left him with a neat ability which really impressed the afterlife babes.
Posted on 11/03/2013 9:31:59 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
The mummified body of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun burst into flames inside his sarcophagus after a botched attempt to embalm him, according to scientists in a new documentary.
After his death in 1323 BC, Tutankhamun was rapidly embalmed and buried, but fire investigators believe a chemical reaction caused by embalming oils used on his mummy sparked the blaze.
A fragment of flesh from the boy pharaoh, whose tomb was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter and the Earl of Carnarvon, was tested by researchers who confirmed his body was burnt while sealed in his coffin.
Tut has long fired the public imagination. He became pharaoh at the age of 10 in 1333 BC and ruled for just nine years until his death.
He was the last of the royal line from the eighteenth dynasty of the New Kingdom, one of the most powerful royal houses of ancient Egypt.
The discovery of his nearly intact tomb, complete with a gold coffin and gold funeral mask, was a worldwide sensation and sparked public interest in ancient Egypt.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Yeah but it left him with a neat ability which really impressed the afterlife babes.
Pinging...
‘Cause we all need to know.
Tu-ut tut, tut, tut,
Old king Tut is dead.
From an OLD 78 RPM EDISON record .
The lyrics!
OLD KING TUT (1923)
Three thousand years ago, In history we know,
King Tutenkhamen ruled a mighty land—
He ruled for many years, ‘Mid laughter, song and tears,
He made a record that will always stand—
They opened up his tomb the other day and jumped with glee,
They learned a lot of ancient history—
CHORUS:
In old King Tut-Tut-Tut-enkhamen’s day,
Beneath the tropic skies King Tut-Tut-Tut was very wise,
Now old King Tut-Tut-Tut was always gay,
Cleopatra she sat upon his knee, Pat! that’s where she sat.
Now old King Tut was just a nut as you can see,
Still proud was Tut about his Beechnut ancestry.
A thousand girls would dance each day,
With lots of hip-hip-hip-hooray,
In old King Tut-Tut-Tut-Tut-Tut-Tut, King Tutty’s Day.
His tomb instead of tears, Was full of Souveniers,
He must have travelled greatly in his time—
The gold and silver ware, That they found hidden there,
Was from hotels of ev’ry land and clime.
While going thru’ his royal robes they found up in his sleeve,
The first love letter Adam wrote to Eve.
CHORUS:
In old King Tut-Tut-Tut-enkhamen’s day,
The dancers then in style
Would even make the old Sphinx smile,
In old King Tut-Tut-Tutenkhamen’s day,
On the desert sand old King Tutty’s band
Played while maiden’s [sic] swayed.
They’d dance for old King Tut ‘neath moonlit skies so warm,
They wore such happy smiles and were in perfect form.
They’d dance for him both fat and thin,
He didn’t care what shape they’re in,
In old King Tut-Tut-Tut-Tut-Tut-Tut, King Tutty’s Day.
What you would expect from Tutankhamuncare.
Edison made flats? I’d never known that. I’ve got an early 20th c Edison cylinder here on the desk, helps me keep some grip on history while using this, uh, late 20th c CPU.
St Martin!! One step up from Basketball Jones by Cheech
Oh yeah, what a great song!
Got a condo made a stone-a, King Tut!
So they had Hatshepsut, then Hotsapshut ....
Not to worry, he didn’t feel a thing.
***Edison made flats? I’d never known that.***
They were about 1/4 inch thick. My wife’s grandfather used to sell Edisons back in the 1910-1925 in Ada Oklahoma. His first shop was a tent.
Edison flat records were engraved with the "hill and valley" method Edison had invented for the cylinders. If you look at an Edison record, you can't see any variation in the grooves (unlike with RCA-style or Pathe records, or "modern" LPs, where variations in volume can be seen).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgTPH5y1-ZI
1979 Steve Martin Live Concert Performance of King Tut.
******** hilarious!!! worth revisiting
I knew the Freeperettes would flock to a thread about a hot guy.
If oil fell on the desert of Arabia and on the land of Egypt and burned there, vestiges of conflagration must be found in some of the tombs built before the end of the Middle Kingdom, into which the oil or some of its derivatives might have seeped.
We read in the description of the tomb of Antefoker, vizier of Sesostris I, a pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom:
“A problem is set us by a conflagration, clearly deliberate, which has raged in the tomb, as in many another. ... The combustible material must not only have been abundant, but of a light nature; for a fierce fire which speedily spent itself seems alone able to account for the fact that tombs so burnt remain absolutely free from blackening, except in the lowest parts; nor are charred remains found as a rule. The conditions are puzzling.”
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