Tutankhamon victim of a fracture to the leg?
 LONDON
– No conspiracy: Tutankhamon wasn’t killed by Ah, his ambitious prime
minister and tutor, in an unscrupulous war for the power in Ancient
Egypt, but apparently he was the victim of a devastating and banal
infection in his leg after he had broken it. According to new and more
sophisticated analysis made on the mummy of the famous child-pharaoh, an
Egyptian dector, Ashraf Selim, is convinced of having resolved once and
for all one of the most fascinating mysteries of archaeology and his
virohet is a complete discharge of the mistreated Ay. According to advance news on the “Sunday Times” doctor Selim will be present in a conference of the Radiological Society of North America to take to pieces in the next days a theory in vogue since the end of the Sixties, when the radiological exams on the pharaoh’s remains, who reigned in ancient Egypt from 1347 to 1339 BC, surprisingly revealed the presence of bone splinters in the upper left part of the skull. The x-rays seem to confirm the theory according to which Tutankhamon – one of the most famous pharaohs thanks to the finding of his beautiful tomb 84 years ago in the valley of the kings – died of a violent death in a probable conspiracy of the court when he was only 19 years old. The suspects have been mostly on Ay (the head of a kind of “Council of regency”) but for the “crime” even Ankhesenahum (the pharaoh’s wife and step-sister) has been suspected, the military commander Horemheb and the chief-treasurer Maya. The reality scenes to have been less fictional. In declarations reported by the “Sunday times”, the Egyptian doctor – in charge of studing carefully the mummy for the supreme Egyptian commitee of the antiques – takes apart this theory and states that Tutankhamon’s skill was actually intact at his death. There are instead signs of a very bad fracture at a leg, probably caused by a fall from a coach. “It’s possible that the fracture at the thighbone caused the death”, doctor Selim states. In his opinion the “wound on the head” is probably caused by the not very proper way the mummy was handled after its finding in 1922 thanks to two englishmen: Howard Carter and Lord Carnavon. Carter carelessly used hammer and chisel to extract the mummy from its beautiful sarcophagus. From ansa.it |
