The removal of the lid of the sarcophagus of the mummy of King Tutankhamen in his underground tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor November 4, 2007. Reuters/Ben Curtis/Pool From The National Post:
WASHINGTON -- The celebrated pharaoh Tutankhamun had a club foot, walked with a cane and was killed by malaria, a study showed on Tuesday.
Researchers from Egypt, Italy and Germany used DNA testing to draw "the most plausible" family tree to date for Tutankhamun and computerized tomography (CT) scans to determine that the pharaoh and his forebears were unlikely to have had the feminine physiques they are depicted with in 3,000-year-old artifacts.
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