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  • King Tut, Part 2

    12/06/2004 7:26:13 PM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 18 replies · 1,332+ views
    NY Times ^ | Dec 7, 2004
    Do you remember the first time around? Tutankhamun and his hoard came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978 and forever changed the way museums did business, not necessarily for the better. There had been major special exhibitions before, but the frenzy over Tut was something extraordinary. Sold-out tickets, long lines, overcrowded galleries - if the objects on display had been any less luminous, any less golden, than they were, they would have been invisible. For the Met, Tutankhamun meant new demographics, new revenues and, in some sense, a new idea of itself. Suddenly it seemed possible to capture...
  • King Tut Not Murdered, but Leg Fracture May Have Caused Infection, Tests Show

    03/08/2005 5:29:13 AM PST · by Pharmboy · 53 replies · 2,219+ views
    AP ^ | Mar 8, 2005 | Paul Garwood
    CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The results of a CT scan done on King Tut's mummy indicate the boy king was not murdered, but may have suffered a badly broken leg shortly before his death at age 19 - a wound that could have become infected, Egypt's top archaeologist said Tuesday. Zahi Hawass, secretary general if the Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced the results of the CT scan about two months after it was performed on Tut's mummy. Hawass said the remains of Tutankhamun, who ruled about 3,300 years ago, showed no signs that he had been murdered - dispelling a...