King Tut's CAT Scan Results Revealed by Egyptian Team

Since his tomb's discovery by Howard Carter, controversy has swirled around the potential cause of death of King Tutankhamun at the tender age of just 19. Some 3,330 years after his death, King Tut received his first CAT Scan in an effort to shed light on the true cause of death. A team of Egyptian scientists and medical technicians took and analyzed more than 17,000 CAT Scan of the dismembered Tut mummy.  Results, announced March 6, suggest that Tut was well fed, in good general health, and had not suffered from any childhood malnutrition or maladies. He was slight in build, had an overbite and crooked lower front teeth, and had an impacted wisdom tooth at the time of his death (but no signs of infection which has ruled this out as a possible cause of his demise).  In answer to theories that Tutankhamun was murdered, the team found no evidence for a blow to the back of the head, and no other indication of foul play.

They also found it extremely unlikely that he suffered an accident in which he crushed his chest.  Some team members interpret a fracture in the left thighbone as evidence for the possibility that Tutankhamun broke his leg badly just before he died. However, this injury alone could not have directly caused the king’s death.  Click here for more details and an interesting report of the forensics.