Although Andie posted this story on Tutankhamun’s death:
TUTANKHAMUN’S mysterious death as a teenager may finally have been explained. And the condition that cut short his life may also have triggered the earliest monotheistic religion, suggests a new review of his family history.
Since his lavishly furnished, nearly intact tomb was discovered in 1922, the cause of Tutankhamun’s death has been at the centre of intense debate. There have been theories of murder, leprosy, tuberculosis, malaria, sickle-cell anaemia, a snake bite – even the suggestion that the young king died after a fall from his chariot.
But all of these theories have missed one vital point, says Hutan Ashrafian, a surgeon with an interest in medical history at Imperial College London. Tutankhamun died young with a feminised physique, and so did his immediate predecessors.
I’m not particularly convinced. The feminization of Tut probably goes to the story a while back where the reconstruction made him look like Boy George, but I’m not sure how accurate that whole thing was. But then, I’m not an expert on the New Kingdom anyway, so make of it all what you will.
