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Tutankhamun | 3. Life & death of a boy king

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Possibly a Chariot Wheelad?

The mummy is missing some, some parts of the torso in particular. This suggests that he may have suffered a blunt force troma which would have been sufficient to break the ribs and to do serious damage to the soft tissue underneath. And this perhaps explains why the ribs were apparently cleanly cut. But chris isn't overly convinced by either the murder theory or malaria. So what else does he think could explain a premature death like this? You might even have asked me to lead on this question,. because i've been er behind promoting the idea that he he was perhaps killed in some sort f accident, perhaps even a chariot crash.

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