Egypt
New Scientist (Jo Marchant)
- More Re 18th Dynasty Dna
New Scientist Another article about challenges to the interpretations of DNA studies which tried to identify the family members of the pharaoh Tutankhamun. The analysis of 11 royal mummies dating from around 1300 BC was carried out by an Egyptian team...
- How Tutankhamun Died - The Latest Questions
A new Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) letter from Christian Timmann, MD and Christian G. Meyer, MD, challenges the Hawass et al conclusions about how Tutankhmaum died published earlier this year. Although this is the letter that the...
- New Book: Tutankhamun's Footwear
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With slideshow. When Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun's treasure-packed tomb in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings, he found a large collection of footwear of different sizes and shapes. "It is the only evidence...
- Videos Re The Jama Paper Results
Discovery News King Tut Unwrapped. Ten videos about the work behind the JAMA paper with interviews, footage of various parts of the process and dramatised reconstructions of the period from which Tutankhamum came. All can be accessed from the above page....
- Bodies Found In The Tomb Of Tutankhamun's Tomb Are Twin Daughters
Times Online (Aditi Khanna) Two foetuses found buried with Tutankhamun may have been his twin daughters, an expert has claimed. Professor Robert Connolly, an anatomist who is working with Egyptian authorities to analyse the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh,...
Egypt
Tutankhmun's club foot
New Scientist (Jo Marchant)
"IT IS normal," Robert Connolly exclaims, poring over the faded pages of an obscure, decades-old book. Connolly has found an image that appears to settle the controversy over whether the boy king Tutankhamun had a club foot. As with many mysteries related to the famous mummy, the truth is hard to pin down.
The argument started last year when a team led by Egypt's then-chief of antiquities, Zahi Hawass, reported that Tutankhamun's left foot was severely deformed.
Hawass's team CAT-scanned the mummy in January 2005. Their subsequent paper, published in 2009, noticed no foot-related problems. Then a reanalysis concluded that Tutankhamun's left foot was in a sorry state. The authors diagnosed club foot, two diseased metatarsals, and a missing toe bone (Journal of the American Medical Association, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.121).
The finding that Tutankhamun was disabled made headlines around the world. But Connolly - a researcher at the University of Liverpool, UK, and part of a team that X-rayed the mummy in 1968 - is convinced it is wrong.
- More Re 18th Dynasty Dna
New Scientist Another article about challenges to the interpretations of DNA studies which tried to identify the family members of the pharaoh Tutankhamun. The analysis of 11 royal mummies dating from around 1300 BC was carried out by an Egyptian team...
- How Tutankhamun Died - The Latest Questions
A new Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) letter from Christian Timmann, MD and Christian G. Meyer, MD, challenges the Hawass et al conclusions about how Tutankhmaum died published earlier this year. Although this is the letter that the...
- New Book: Tutankhamun's Footwear
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With slideshow. When Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun's treasure-packed tomb in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings, he found a large collection of footwear of different sizes and shapes. "It is the only evidence...
- Videos Re The Jama Paper Results
Discovery News King Tut Unwrapped. Ten videos about the work behind the JAMA paper with interviews, footage of various parts of the process and dramatised reconstructions of the period from which Tutankhamum came. All can be accessed from the above page....
- Bodies Found In The Tomb Of Tutankhamun's Tomb Are Twin Daughters
Times Online (Aditi Khanna) Two foetuses found buried with Tutankhamun may have been his twin daughters, an expert has claimed. Professor Robert Connolly, an anatomist who is working with Egyptian authorities to analyse the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh,...