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."

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for that link, I’ve asked a doctor I know for the loan of his copy of that issue of the med journal, and rec’d bupkis.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks MCH!

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[SunkenCiv]

The doctor sees his patient, a guy with an alien growing out of the middle of his chest. “How’d it start?” The alien sez, “it started as a wart on my ass.”

[Towed_Jumper]

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

For a moment there I thought that pic was some sort of stylized artistic interpretation of the death of Rachael Corey (aka Saint Pancake).

[SIDENET]

LOL!

[Little Bill]

Tut would have been a pimple on the ass of History if it wasn't for Carter and the tomb. History is Kings and Wars, he just got dead, et by a hippo.

[SunkenCiv]

That stuff between the hippo’s teeth? Slow-moving pharaohs. ;’)

The other reasons Tut’s tomb wasn’t looted: robbers dug their way in during pharaonic times, probably within a few years (or even days, weeks, or months) after the burial, as Carter found the hole they wormed through, but they only got into the first chamber, and must have been discovered, or got caught with whatever items they managed to remove; also, a later pharaoh’s excavations used the area of Tut’s entrance as a dump site for the stuff removed by the new mining.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[Little Bill]

Good excuse but how did that excuse Tut from being a white head (Zit)? A whole lot of talk, lot of talk, Ar manna letterers as opposed to action reminds me of Ossama.

[Old Student]

“I’m a sick man. :-|”

FRiend, I believe that also applies to everyone else on FR with a Y chromosome. Ask any Lib, they'll tell ya!

[shibumi]

"..... stylized artistic interpretation of the death of Rachael Corey (aka Saint Pancake)."

That could not be accomplished without extensive technical consultation with the IDF and on location use of the shrine of The Holy Tree of Jerusalem and Burning Bush (all lit up.)

[SunkenCiv]

Zit talk reminds me, I watched “Animal House” on disk last night.

[SunkenCiv]

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