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DISCOVERY TUT : THE SAGA CONTINUES
By : Flavia
• Tut died more than 3300 years ago. He was the last teen-aged ruler of a powerful family that had ruled Egyptian empire for centuries.
• Ruled for about nine years and then died unexpectedly.
• His tomb was discovered and investigated in 1922 by a British archaeologist, Howard Carter.
• He was a British citizen and didn't have the beliefs of the Egyptians who never tried to go near Tut's tomb because they had feared that going near Tut's tomb was disasterous as It could invite the Pharaoh's curse !
• Anyway carter was not scared. He decided to take Tut's body out.
Tomb entrance
• Later it was taken out again for CT scan to solve the mystery of his death.The mummy was scanned after a thousand years to find a cause of its untimely death but technology hasn’t been able to give us a definite answer to Tut’s death.
• Tut underwent a CT scan that offered new clues on his life and death. It is thought that he could have been murdered.
• Howard discovered the world's richest royal collection ever found. He went to his afterlife with things such as board games, food, wine, linen undergarments, etc. Artefacts of gold of extreme brilliance could be found in his grave.
• It took months for Carter to record all the things that had been found in his grave.
• But taking Tut's body wasn't that easy. Carter and his team broke the three gold coffins one after the other. Finally they broke the innermost coffin and saw the dried, hard body of Tut.
• It was really wonderful to see the dead body of a 3300 year old mummy and to know for sure that his name was Tutankhamun.
• He then decided to take the body out of the coffins but soon realized that that was not so easy because the body had got hardened with the resins and separating the body from the coffin was Impossible.
• But Carter could not think of leaving the body there. He feared the thieves who could destroy the mummy for stealing the valuable wealth inside, so Carter decided to cut Tut's body into pieces.
• Carter amputated Tut's hands, legs and all the other joints. You can call it a kind of a 21st century murder of a 1300 BC Pharaoh and the Murder was committed by Howard Carter.
• Carter had no other option because for him the mummy was more important than the treasures.
• Having taken the sliced pieces of Tut, Carter rejoined them into Tut again.Carter received criticisms from everywhere for killing an ancient mummy but Carter went ahead with his discovery.
• After some years, probably after Carter's death, a doctor performed an Xray and found out that one of Tut's bones was missing from his reassembled body. How did it happen? No one knows! Years passed and archaeologists and scientists performed a number of studies and experiments.
• Today CT scan takes hundreds of X-Rays and creates a three dimensional image of the body. Tut’s mummy was put into a CT scanner on 5 Jan. 2005 to answer two questions – How did he die? and how old was he at the time of death?
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A.R. Williams developed a love for reading at a very young age and in the fourth grade, when an assignment to write their own works of fiction was given, it occurred to him that he too could have the ability to craft tales for
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funeral viii. Resins applied according to religious rites ix. Aloofness of a scientist x. Body made to appear to exist by
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