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The mummy of pharaoh Tutankhamun (ancient Egyptian Twt'nkh3mn - "The Living Image of Amun") has been subject to many "scientific" studies and intensive and invasive investigations since its discovery, not all of it of a very high standard. The result has been a wide range of wild and extremely unscientific theories about the means of the boy king's death, none of which can either be proved or disproved.

He "fell from his chariot, he was murdered, he had some congenital disease, he was poisoned, beaten over the head", etc. Or, more likely, he could simply have died of any of the countless diseases that swept through ancient Egypt and for which there was usually no effective cure.

The truth is that we will never know the truth in the case of Tutankhamen (except that we know that some people insist on murdering his name by calling him "Tut", which would have been considered a serious criminal insult to the royal personage, with lethal consequences).

It has been shown that the wound to his leg caused gangrene, and happened only a short time before his death. It was the only visible cause of death on the mummy.

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