Wednesday, March 09, 2005

No Sign Tutankhamun Murdered But Mystery Unsolved

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=7837783§ion=news&src=rss/uk/scienceNews
"A three-dimensional X-ray scan of Tutankhamun's mummy found no evidence to support theories he was murdered but failed to solve the 3,000-year-old mystery of how the young Egyptian pharaoh died. Some members of the investigative team say he may have died from an infected thigh wound, but others doubt this, saying that injury may have been inflicted later by a "archaeologists, according to the team's five-page report released on Tuesday".
There is more information in the article.
Other information at:
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o090325a.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4328903.stm

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