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King Tut Killed by a Knee Infection?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the clearer-picture-from-clearer-pictures dept.

adminsr writes to tell us the Discovery Channel is reporting that an Egyptian-led research team claims to have found compelling new evidence relating to the cause of death of King Tutankhamen From the article: "According to the Italian doctors, it was likely that King Tut suffered a violent blow, most likely by a sword. The blow would have lodged gold fragments from the decorations of the Pharaoh's armour or dress into the knee."

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  1. Obvious... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Never demonstrate how your subjects should bow down to you while holding a sword.

  2. So... by Darlantan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this mean that King Tut developed 'Gold Fever'?

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  3. Easy Discovery by imoou · · Score: 3, Funny

    King Tut's left index finger is pointing at his wound.

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  4. form vs. function by quintesson · · Score: 4, Funny

    This must have set the gold armour industry back centuries.

    1. Re:form vs. function by ultranova · · Score: 3, Funny

      Lesson: if you happen to be Medieval royalty, wear goldfoiled steel (or iron) armor.

      Better yet, wear perfectly ordinary steel armor. That way every enemy archer won't be able to aim at you from the other end of the battlefield. Wearing an armor that screams "target me !" just to appease your vanity is a really stupid thing to do.

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    2. Re:form vs. function by jrockway · · Score: 4, Funny

      > Wearing an armor that screams "target me !" just to appease your vanity is a really stupid thing to do.

      Modern day parallel: iPod headphones.

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  5. Obligatory Bangels reference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It must have been difficult to "Walk like an Egyptian" after that.

    Right, I'll get my coat.

  6. Could it be.... by d474 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that King Tut was killed by the "Knights That Say 'Ni'!"?

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    1. Re:Could it be.... by reverseengineer · · Score: 4, Funny
      ...that King Tut was killed by the "Knights That Say 'Ni'!"?



      All that golden splendor, but killed for want of a shrubbery. Tragic, really.

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  7. Interesting by mabu · · Score: 3, Funny

    I find it very interesting that Italian doctors are speculating King Tut had a knee injury. Maybe he had a few outstanding debts from gambling on some camel races?

  8. I think.. by seabre · · Score: 5, Funny

    death due to pimp accessories is pretty bad ass.

  9. Worlds first Bling death by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    the blow would have lodged gold fragments from the decorations of the Pharaoh's armour or dress into the knee."

    And the writing was litterally on the wall.

    Kids dont do bling.

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  10. Re:We're privileged by Tx · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's interesting about this is that in king Tut's days wounds like that generally were lethal. How privileged we are living in this modern age (and having access to anti-biotics)!

    Yeah, I think that every time I'm in a sword fight! ;)

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  11. Re:How many ways can the guy die? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The whole thing seems rather like fools gold to me.

    Yeah, kind of like a pyramid scheme.

  12. Nuts by Ranger · · Score: 4, Funny

    First scientists announce they think the Ice Man, Oetzi was infertile. How could they know that? And now they are saying King Tut was killed by a knee infection. Had they not lived two thousand years apart on different continents. They could have hypothesized that King Tut kneed Oetzi in the nuts so hard it sterilized him. Oetzi in an attempt to fend off the blow was holding either an arrowhead or flint knife at just the wrong angle so that it cut King Tut's knee and cut off his testicles at the same time. But solving historical mysteries aren't that easy.

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  13. Funky Tut by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 4, Funny

    Must've sustained the injury during his move from Arizona to Babylonia

  14. Re:Missing history by drewxhawaii · · Score: 5, Funny

    this is the single most depressing thing i've read on /.

  15. Re:How about the 130 walking sticks??? by wiresquire · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...but the Nat'l Geo team found the presence of structures that demonstrated that the knee was trying to heal."

    Perhaps the mummy was regenerating ?!!???!!!

    AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Run !! Must get away!

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  16. Throckmorton's Sign? by No+Such+Agency · · Score: 3, Funny

    "King Tut's left index finger is pointing at his wound."

    Is that sort of like "Throckmorton's Sign"?

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