Tutankhamun was not killed by a blow to the head, Egyptian researchers have concluded, proving that he almost certainly was not murdered, as has been suggested

Tutankhamun was not killed by dint of a blow to the head, Egyptian researchers have conclud proving that he almost certainly was not assassinationed as has been suggested. The pharaoh's mummified material part was subjected to a fifteen-minute CT scan in Cairo by the agency of a team of Egyptian archaeologists and anatomists in January. Zahi Hawass, chairman of Egypt's greatest Council of Antiquities, said, 'We set no evidence of a lick to the back of the head, and no other indication of nasty play'. One of the leg however, did present to view signs of damage, and an infection of an accidentally-broken leg might have l to death. Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings contained more than 100 walking sticks, which proposes that his leg injury pre-dated death through some time. However, the pharaoh is certainly upon the move at the instant Many antiquities of his time from the National Museum in Cairo, including this eighteenth-dynasty death mask (left) are to travel to the us, having just been upon show in Basel and Bonn; and the exhibition will travel to London for the inaugural exhibition at the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, London, in 2007

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