King Tut suffered 'massive' chest injury, new research reveals

Heritage Key ^ | Friday, November 5, 2010 | Owen Jarus

[SunkenCiv]

One possibility that Dr. Harer ruled out is that of a chariot accident. "If he fell from a speeding chariot going at top speed you would have what we call a tumbling injury -- he'd go head over heels. He would break his neck. His back. His arms, legs. It wouldn't gouge a chunk out of his chest."

Instead, at his Toronto lecture, Harer brought up another, more exotic possibility -- that Tut was killed by a hippo.

It's not as far out an idea as it sounds, hippos are aggressive, quick and territorial animals, and there is an artefact in Tut's tomb which appears to show him hunting one of them...

"Hippos kill more people than any other animal, they are the most lethal animal in Africa (if not) the world," said Harer. "The victim suffers massive tearing injury and can actually be cut in half." Medical reports indicate that "even though they are running away from the hippo they typically suffer a frontal wound."

In Tut's case, if the hippo charged, his entourage may not have been able to get to him in time. "If he did have a club foot (as a recent medical report suggests) it would make him the slowest person getting out of the way -- the easiest person for the hippo to get."

[Salamander]

“that Tut was killed by a hippo.”

Pit hippo ping.

[JoeProBono]

[shibumi]

(A Dramatization)

(Professional Stunt Victim. Trained Prop Hippo. Do not attempt.)

[SIDENET]

BAN HIPPOS.

[Salamander]

That you even ~have~ stuff like that at your immediate posting disposal is.....disturbing.

;-D

[Salamander]

It seems to have a taste for red heads.

[shibumi]

Unique and savory.

Yummmmmm!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Number #1 is the mosquito.

Aided and abetted by Western "environmentalist".

[Fresh Wind]

[martin_fierro]

Instead, at his Toronto lecture, Harer brought up another, more exotic possibility -- that Tut was killed by a hippo.

You. Are. There.

[trisham]

Where’s Chet99 ?

Oh. Never mind.

[50mm]

Pit hippos are so darn ferocious.

[50mm]

Ping for your interests.

[blam]

"He’s my favorite honky ..."

King Tut, Western European (R1b) DNA?

The Lineage Of King Tutankhamun From Ancient DNA Analysis

"According to someone (not me) who has been bothered to enter the Y chr markers as seen on the video, Tut is coming up as R1b. I’d have put money on it being something more like an E1 Y chr, or maybe J as an outside chance…R1b isn’t unknown in Egypt, (see Wood 2005) but isn’t exactly common.

[Larry Lucido]

A hip bull?

[Larry Lucido]

So if you’re a movie producer in Egypt and you don’t hire an underworld figure’s nephew, do you end up with a hippo head in your bed?

[Eaker]

Number #1 is the mosquito.

Thanks to Rachel Carson, the worse mass murderer in the world.

[50mm]

The dreaded Hip Bull.

[Eaker]

When Hurricane Ike came through we thought that it’s winds knocked our fence down but State Farm said it was hippos and therefore not covered.

[Larry Lucido]

If you had taken the hippocratic oath, you would have been covered.