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Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 6360
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 12:26 am: |     |
The work was based on sophisticated CT scans of the mummy taken Jan. 5 in his tomb at Luxor in the Valley of the Kings. CT scanning, typically used for medical diagnoses, can be used to produce three-dimensional images.
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bets
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Username: Bets
Post Number: 1459
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 1:41 am: | |
Very cool.
Didn't those scans also validate that he was murdered? (Sorry, I didn't click the link and read the history.) I was following this story with great interest when they began the delicate post mortem. |
Albatross
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Username: Albatross
Post Number: 629
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 6:44 am: | |
I think that they determined that the cracks in the skull were caused by the team that took him out of the tomb; they had speculated that he was murdered by a successor.
I haven't read the LATimes article, but the scientist quoted in the NYTimes article speculated that it might have been an infection that killed him. |
Walker
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Username: Fester
Post Number: 128
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 11:42 am: | |
Text from the link below to CNN.
"They were able to dismiss a long held theory that Tut, who died around 1323 B.C., was murdered by a blow to his skull or killed in an accident that crushed his chest. It raised a new possibility for the cause of death: Some experts on the scanning team said it appeared Tut broke his left thigh severely -- puncturing his skin -- just days before his death, and the break could have caused an infection."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/11/tut.face.ap/index.html
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bets
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Username: Bets
Post Number: 1467
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 10:22 pm: | |
Thanks for clearing up that little mystery. |
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