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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. Chuck Norris does not fear King Tut by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Chuck Norris enters the roayl throne room and with a single roundhouse kick to King Tuts knee he was destroyed. That is all. Chuck shall let the rest of you live so that you may be in awe of his greatness.

  2. Not according to modern Egyptologists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Tut didn't have a "knee" problem. Well, sort of. It was not his left knee. It was not his right knee. It was not his "hi knee". It was his "wee knee". The dude had syphillis. huh huh