THE RETURN OF THE MUMMY - The mystery of Tutankhamun's death finally solved

THE RETURN OF THE MUMMY - The mystery of Tutankhamun's death finally solved

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 THE RETURN OF THE MUMMY - The mystery of Tutankhamun's death finally solved

THE RETURN, OF, THE ,MUMMY, - The mystery, of Tutankhamun's death, finally, solved
The remains of King Tutankhamen
The riddle of the death of King Tutankhamen is she finally resolved? A team of British researchers think I found the key to the mystery - the death, in Cairo, the archaeologist Lord Carnarvon, after discovering the tomb of the pharaoh, in 1922, had contributed to thicken.
The Independent reported on the work done by the team of researchers who have worked to uncover the causes, hitherto unknown, of the death of the young king in 1323 BC, at the age of 19 years old. A documentary on the subject will be released November 10 on Channel 4.
For the record, the theories about the circumstances of the death of Tutankhamun are many. The latest dated evoked a seizure, malaria and bone disease. The thesis defended by British experts from the Cranfield Institute of Forensic (center of scientific and technological research)? Tutankhamun would have taken the brunt of a cart, which would have broken his ribs and crushed heart. This is why, unlike other mummified kings, this organ is absent from his tomb. To support this hypothesis, the researchers uses crash-test specialists to perform virtual simulations.
But the researchers did not stop there. They also claim that the mummification of Tutankhamun was completely botched. This would explain the charred aspect of the mummy. According to them, the body has burned, but because of an amazing phenomenon would have occurred within the sarcophagus. "His body actually entered the burning shortly after his funeral, it is a real discovery," enthuses Chris Naunton, Director of Egypt Exploration Society (archaeological research center).
In reaching this conclusion, Robert Connolly, an anthropologist at the University of Liverpool and a member of a scientific team that went to X-rays the pharaoh's remains in 1968, examined with forensic archaeologist Matthew Ponting, one end epidermis recently found on the bones of the pharaoh. According to the two men, it is the contact between oxygen, flaxseed and oils on the body that caused the chemical reaction, burning the body of Tutankhamun at a temperature of over 200 ° C.