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King Tut Not Murdered, but Leg Fracture May Have Caused Infection, Tests Show
AP ^ | Mar 8, 2005 | Paul Garwood

Posted on 03/08/2005 5:29:13 AM PST by Pharmboy

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Wow. He had to wait 3,300 years for a CT scan. That's a little shorter than the wait in England and Canada, I think.

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.

1 posted on 03/08/2005 5:29:14 AM PST by Pharmboy
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping for GGG, if appropriate.


2 posted on 03/08/2005 5:29:59 AM PST by Pharmboy ("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God")
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A little penicillin would have saved him.

Not really . . . .he'd still be dead.

3 posted on 03/08/2005 5:37:28 AM PST by WIladyconservative (Be an active member of the pajamahadeen - set up a monthly donation to FR!!)
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To: Pharmboy

But Egypt didn't have a 2B$ gun registry.


4 posted on 03/08/2005 5:43:27 AM PST by rightoric
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To: Pharmboy

Will they be sharing results of DNA testing also?


6 posted on 03/08/2005 5:47:40 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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Hawass said some members of the Egyptian-led research team, which included two Italian experts and one from Switzerland

I wonder if they charged the Italians and Swiss thirty bucks to see him.

7 posted on 03/08/2005 5:48:12 AM PST by monkey
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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!


8 posted on 03/08/2005 5:48:29 AM PST by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Gen G Patton)
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Hilarious!


9 posted on 03/08/2005 5:50:15 AM PST by Pharmboy ("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God")
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10 posted on 03/08/2005 5:52:46 AM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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I guess not:

Hawass had long refused to allow DNA testing on Tut's remains and only agreed to perform a noninvasive CT scan on the mummy...

11 posted on 03/08/2005 5:57:25 AM PST by Constitution Day ("Marsa Stert is a britch and and I sit on the exhange")
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I watched this on the History Channel the other night. The narrator had an accent and pronounced every word wrong or is me that has been wrong all these years?
12 posted on 03/08/2005 5:57:28 AM PST by Ditter
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Talk about a Cold Case File!!!


13 posted on 03/08/2005 5:58:32 AM PST by WKB (You can half the good and double the bad people say about themselves.)
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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.


14 posted on 03/08/2005 6:04:39 AM PST by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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Hawass had long refused to allow DNA testing on Tut's remains

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.

15 posted on 03/08/2005 6:11:19 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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No No No, you see, It was an ancient relative of George Bush that tripped Tut, hence the broken leg, etc etc.

;-)


16 posted on 03/08/2005 6:13:32 AM PST by tiredoflaundry (My quaker parrot can talk, can Your honor student fly?)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

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.


17 posted on 03/08/2005 6:14:33 AM PST by Constitution Day ("Marsa Stert is a britch and and I sit on the exhange")
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Because they might find out he was JEWISH! (His real name was Tutstein).


18 posted on 03/08/2005 6:14:48 AM PST by Pharmboy ("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God")
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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.


19 posted on 03/08/2005 6:15:26 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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Because they might find out he was JEWISH

Shlomo Tannenhammen.....

20 posted on 03/08/2005 6:24:11 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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