Posted on 03/08/2005 5:29:13 AM PST by Pharmboy
At any rate, I'm glad they finally solved this mystery involving the boy king. And, I guess the folk medicine for treating the infection did not work. A little penicillin would have saved him.
Ping for GGG, if appropriate.
Not really . . . .he'd still be dead.
But Egypt didn't have a 2B$ gun registry.
Will they be sharing results of DNA testing also?
I wonder if they charged the Italians and Swiss thirty bucks to see him.
Tut was of a slight build ... had a slight cleft palate .. He also had large incisor teeth and the typical overbite characteristic of other kings from his family. His lower teeth were also slightly misaligned.Sooooooo, King Tut was in fact... Mortimer Snerd!
Hilarious!
Hawass had long refused to allow DNA testing on Tut's remains and only agreed to perform a noninvasive CT scan on the mummy...
Talk about a Cold Case File!!!
Conclusion: Boy king, King Tut, fell out of his high chair eating breakfast, broke his leg, got a lethal infection......and the rest is history.
Thanks for reading for me~!
Anyway, I wonder why? I understand not wanting to do something invasive, but with an opportunity like this, it seems a shame not to.
No No No, you see, It was an ancient relative of George Bush that tripped Tut, hence the broken leg, etc etc.
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You're welcome. :)
I don't really know why, but I agree with you.
From the article, it seems the only reason not to is Because Zahi Hawass Said So.
Because they might find out he was JEWISH! (His real name was Tutstein).
My father was born in 1904, and as the story goes, he fell as a young boy and developed a severe infection in his leg. Years later it was diagnosed as Osteomyelitis. As kids, we were told that the doctor's back then had grafted a sheep's bone into his leg and that the procedure had been written up in the medical journals. I have no idea if this story was true or not, but my Dad did walk with a noticeable limp and his leg was badly scarred. His whole life he had an open wound on his upper arm that drained pus. My mother would wash and dress the wound every night when he came home from work. I can't imagine how my father worked 50+ years on the railroad with the disease. He never took any medication for it. Occasionally the wound would close up on him, he'd develop a fever/chills and feel generally oogy, but he never missed a day's work because of it. After about a week, the infection would fester and reopen, usually in a different place on his arm. My Dad lived to be 72, dying of lung cancer and the effects of a massive stroke.
Shlomo Tannenhammen.....
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