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Mystery of King Tut's death solved

physorg.com — It was a sword blow to the knee.

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  • philovivero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Experts during the centuries have been unable to definitively say what caused King Tut's death. But the new discovery has led to the hypothesis a sword blow produced a fatal infection."

    In other words, they STILL cannot definitively say what caused his death, and nothing has changed. And this article is three tiny little paragraphs nestled amidst a thousand annoying advertisements.
  • EvilBadger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Professor Plum, with the candlestick, in the parlor
  • felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Horray! A chance to use the "inaccurate" tag!
  • chikara_zero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The article title should be " Scientists learn more about what possibly could have killed king Tut"
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@KingMichael

    It was a level 43 scorpion, we later found it hiding in a cave with its buddies. I was going to rez King Tut before time ran out... But the bastard scorpion saw me while I was preforming the rez, then I had to train to zone. No one died other than Tut, it was a pretty sucessful run. He had to take one for the party.
  • pishi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1way to ruin the story... =P
  • burch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1but they still can't find who killed biggie and tupac. wtf?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3the butler did it.
  • MoeB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I KNEW IT
  • Grandfinale1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That punk kid was King.

    I killed him, I'm sorry.
  • withoutfunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The scientists say they found traces of gold leaf bearing animal symbols in the late pharaoh's right kneecap" I keep reading that but am failing to understand what that sentence is saying. The article skims the surface of this story....eh, no digg.
  • qbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0taken out by the "s-word" damn!
  • Guano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ whithoutfunk

    I believe they mean the gold leaf is evidence of a sword blow because the sword must have been decorated in said gold leaf.
  • dielawn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0whats _a_ pussy
  • SmAcKaSs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No one will ever know. And even if they do tack one thing to what did it, historians are corrupt like any group of people and unless you were at his funeral, you can't say... so why do they bother?
  • jayhenry1211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Totally agree, spoiler and totally anitclimatic, Not worth reading the article or a digg.
  • Badaudio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0goddamn spoiler!
  • Kingmichael, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What level was the guy who aggro'd him?
  • loveandrockets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Scientists speculate there might be a chance that possibly they might know maybe what could have--if all conditions are met--that which, ostensibly, could have killed King Tut. Maybe.
  • 0Troy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@akuma645
    Curses! You beat me to it!!!
  • kazsymonds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Michael Barrymore, in the swimming pool, with the dildo.

    So what was the *****-off big chunk of his head missing all about then?
  • Darkshine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@guano

    The gold leaf is from his garments. When he got hit the sword shoved clothes into his kneecap. Guess they didn't know how to clean a wound back then.
  • JHawk24821, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The article title should be " Scientists once again speculate about what might have maybe possibly killed king Tut. Maybe."
  • halikar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, that was certainly anticlimatic.
  • dielawn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what pussy
  • darkmagus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It was VD.
  • Arcotik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0An entire special revealing how he died was aired LAST year, mid year, no digg. Very old news.
  • Swampthing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe King Tut did business with PriceRite Camera?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I confess... I did it sorry =(
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lame no digg
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i thought he got a blow to the head, whatever same idea
  • capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My bad....mental note to self: don't drink and digg
  • Sagura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ZOMG Spoiler
  • nmcglennon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sherlock Holmes, don't quit your day job....
  • bonlebon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Shall we blame crab people for this incident?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 Old News! Like 3300 years to late.
  • mpeters13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0>>; this is hardly a solution. reported as lame
  • npettis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OUCH! Having had reconstructive knee surgery from an orthopedist who works on NFL players using modern technology and medicine, I think Tut was probably glad to die from a sword hack to the knee... as long as it wasn't too drawn out. That surgery hurt even with all the expertise.

    Oh yeah... Miss Scarlet in the Billiard Room with the Rope.
  • Gamil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the poster's description is kinda anti climactic
  • mwong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0SWORD'ED!
  • Sophistifunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I believe... Colonel Mustard did in the study with the candlestick.

    You're wrong death - it was professor plum.

    I said plum!

    No way dude, you said mustard!
  • calbff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, talk about crap 'n *****. Must be some damn fine "scientists" working for these guys...
  • oldcyborg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, I hope Steve Martin can do Something with this news.. I certainly can't use it....


    Cyborg
    nah
  • fetus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and I'd have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids.
  • Frankiedog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I must have missed it, because all the link brings up for me is a pic of the golden Tut, surrounded by 100 ads.
  • kamellll, on 09/22/2008, -0/+0X-Ray test for the mummy of king Tut and some facts about the death of the young king in http://famouspharaohs.blogspot.com/2007/10/hatshep ...
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, they really spam you hard on this site.
  • Butterfly33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They could reach in, pull out all the internal organs and preserve them in a jar. Effectively doing an autopsy... but they couldn't clean a wound? Hmmm.... not buyin it. LOL
  • tidejwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"SOLVED"? IT said they are speculating on mroe possibilities, and can't say anything definitive yet, they are waiting on final analysis...umm...no digg yet. If we dugg every hypothesis of King Tuts demise. . . well. . . there'd be a lot...
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