“Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass says the results of two years of tests on famous Egyptian mummies show boy king Tutankhamun died of malaria.
Hawass points out King Tut was a sickly man, with a cleft palate and a club foot, which forced him to walk with a cane. He attributes Tut’s health problems to genetic deformations caused by the marriage of his father Akhenaten to his sister, the younger lady mummy, whose name is not known.”
(Voice of America)
Ancient mysteries don’t pop up everyday, nonetheless solving them, that’s about right next to finding missing links. But every so often, in the middle of all the every day news stories and apocalyptic prophesies of the future, there are little gems of mystery still left.
Hearing things like this just makes me feel like a kid again, it makes me feel that there are still amazing things we have yet to uncover – you just feel so small and in awe of humanity.
