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What Killed Pharaoh Tut-ankn-amun

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New science lays to rest old murder-conspiracy theories?

http://www.usnews.com/health/managi...16/king-tuts-demise-gets-new-explanation.html

That murder-conspiracy theory was based on a lot of inaccurate or sloppy reading of the available material and a lot of conjecture."
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And Akhen-aten? Not the "girlie man" people have been claiming, either.

Maybe still an H.P. Lovecraft-lookin' sun-worshipping monotheist SPACE ALIEN ... just not a victim of his hormones.

"Some statues of Tut's father show him grotesquely deformed, and historians wondered if he'd had some kind of feminizing disorder or was it just the artistic style," Thompson said. "These researchers answered the question."
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