Yes, I know it seems like a mundane way for someone to die, but given the state of medical “science” during this stage of Egyptian history, it does not come as a surprise that an infection resulting from injuries sustained in some sort of accident could kill a person, even a healthy young man.

A CT scan of King Tutankhamun's mummy has disproved a popular theory that the Egyptian pharaoh was murdered by a blow to the head more than 3,300 years ago.

Instead the most likely explanation for the boy king's death at 19 is a thigh fracture that became infected and ultimately fatal, according to an international team of scientists.

The team presented its results this week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago, Illinois.

"I think it is the end of the investigation. Â… We can now close this file," said team leader Ashraf Selim, a radiologist at Kasr Eleini Teaching Hospital at Cairo University in Egypt.

The murder theory can pretty well be discounted by discoveries about the two bone chips found loose in TutÂ’s skull in a 1968 x-ray. In all likelihood, rough handling of TutÂ’s mummy by Egyptologist Howard Carter and his associates did that damage, along with much of the other damage to the skeleton.

But the break in the left thigh was coated with the resin, indicating that it happened shortly before the body was embalmed and that there was an associated wound through which the resin leaked. Given the probability of an infection, it should not be surprising that Tut died quickly, before there was a chance for significant healing of the injury.

But there is information about “King Tut’s Curse” in the article – it is an interesting read.

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