From the vault: The mystery around King Tut's death takes another twist....
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsKing Tut, that most famous of mummies, may yet have some secrets to spill. Researchers have reanalyzed the teenagehit by a chariot—and that, adding insult to injury, his mummification was botched, leading his corpse to spontaneously combust inside its sarcophagus.
The chariot-crash evidence came from a “virtual autopsy” of the body using X-ray and CAT scans. To reconstruct the accident, lead researcher Chris Naunton, director of the Egypt Exploration Society in the UK, enlisted the help of car crash investigators, reports theDr. Naunton used the latest technology to reconstruct the death of the pharaoh and now believes a high-speed chariot crash was the cause of his death.
Not only did his skeleton have broken ribs on its left-hand side but it was lacking a sternum, or breastbone, and heart.The other revelation, that Tut caught fire after death, came from a piece of flesh that an anthropologist
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