A CT scan survey of the Egyptian King Tutankhamun has confirmed he was not murdered, and instead may have died following a fall from a horse or chariot, linking his untimely demise with a curious story preserved in the Jewish Talmud.
Tutankhamun was not murdered – that’s the official line from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities following a recent CT scan survey of his remains.
In contrast, there is now mounting evidence that the boy king died following a fall, a theory championed by Egyptological writers Andrew Collins and Chris Ogilvie-Herald.
An all-Egyptian team of pathologists, radiologists, and anatomists, overseen by Dr. Madiha Khattab, Dean of Medicine at Cairo University, removed the pharaoh’s skeleton from its stone sarcophagus in the Valley of the Kings, and used ultra-modern CT scan equipment to take a total of 1,700 pictures.
In the presence of three independent foreign observers, one from Switzerland and two from Italy, the images were scrutinized at length by the all-Egyptian team. Although there were differences of opinion among the scientists, they all agreed on one thing: Tutankhamun did not die from a blow to the head, a theory popularized by those who believe he was murdered, since no evidence of any cranial fractures were found, or indeed any evidence of foul play.
