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King Tut suffered 'massive' chest injury, new research reveals
Heritage Key ^
| Friday, November 5, 2010
| Owen Jarus
Posted on 11/12/2010 8:50:37 PM PST by 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."
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 18thdynasty; amarna; ancientautopsies; chest; earlofcarnarvon; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; hippo; hippopotamus; hippos; howardcarter; injury; king; kingtut; massive; research; suffered; tut; tutankhamun
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To: Moonman62
Hmmmm, if I had a club foot, making me the slowest in any group of hunters, I would NOT go hunting hippos!
It appears King Tut wasn't the sharpest spear in the quiver!
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posted on
11/13/2010 8:00:35 AM PST
by
CAluvdubya
(Palin 2012...YOU BETCHA!.)
To: SunkenCiv
Had Tut recently returned from LV-426?
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
11/13/2010 8:04:13 AM PST
by
The Comedian
(Time and tide wait for no man. But who needs a bad magazine and cheap soap?)
To: Larry Lucido
Any way that the oath can be back dated?
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posted on
11/13/2010 8:04:40 AM PST
by
Eaker
(Pablo is very wily)
To: SIDENET
BAN HIPPOS. If hippos are banned, only Tuts will have hippos.
Or something...
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posted on
11/13/2010 8:04:41 AM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(Here it is in black and white: The pinkos went green 'cause they're too yellow to admit they're red.)
To: trisham
“The hogs ate him”
[warning: that punchline is a test of your “Hillbilly aptitude”]....;D
45
posted on
11/13/2010 8:12:38 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: Eaker
Ha! Ha! Ha!! Everybody knows there are no hippos in Texas. Now hippodillos are a different story.
46
posted on
11/13/2010 8:14:00 AM PST
by
50mm
(I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)
To: 50mm
Wonderfully combined, Dr Moreau!
47
posted on
11/13/2010 8:14:09 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: blam
I’m sure those findings are going over *real* well.
8-o
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posted on
11/13/2010 8:18:33 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: Larry Lucido
Pit hippo...or “Pippo” for short.
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posted on
11/13/2010 8:19:49 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: Eaker
50
posted on
11/13/2010 8:20:42 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: Salamander
Heh. I had to Google it. :)
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posted on
11/13/2010 8:21:19 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: 50mm
52
posted on
11/13/2010 8:24:22 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: SunkenCiv
I didn’t realize she was a mummy...she had kids?
53
posted on
11/13/2010 8:28:36 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: trisham
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posted on
11/13/2010 8:34:05 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: trisham
Sure he will!
He’s just pinin’ for the fjords right now, I tell ya!
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posted on
11/13/2010 8:36:29 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by....but I never cry.....)
To: trisham; casuist; josiegallows
Yes, I know. I like to tweak recent ZOTtees. I’m weird that way.
56
posted on
11/13/2010 8:40:22 AM PST
by
50mm
(I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)
To: Salamander
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posted on
11/13/2010 8:47:48 AM PST
by
50mm
(I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)
To: 50mm
58
posted on
11/13/2010 8:56:18 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Salamander
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posted on
11/13/2010 8:57:07 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: SIDENET
a hippo bit my sister once...
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posted on
11/13/2010 9:43:44 AM PST
by
BlueDragon
(....other than that we aint nothin' just good 'ol boys...)
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