Tutankhamen

On Wednesday 5th January, 2005, a team of researchers headed by Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, conducted a CT scan of Tutakhamen's remains. This investigation seems to have closed the speculation that the young Pharaoh was murdered. There was no evidence of any wound at the back of the skull.

However, the scan showed that Tutankhamen had suffered from a serious fraction just above the left knee, an injury that he must have received some four or five days before his death. There are two possible reasons: either he had fallen off his chariot or he could have been wounded in battle. Most of the researchers found it plausible that gangrene may had entered the wound and thus killed the young man.

Well, for me one question is left: In that case, why did not the surgeons amputate his leg? Was it impossible for a Pharaoh to be blemished? Or where there other reasons?...

The photo above shows the reconstruction of Tutankhamen's face that was made by the forensic sculptress Elisabeth Daynes from the findings of the CT scan. No Pharaoh has ever been so close to us.