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There are many theories published on the death of the golden king, Tutankhamun. The most popular one, that he was hit by an axe on his head, is based on the existence of a hole in the back of his head.
The Egyptian Mummy project studied the Mummy of Tutankhamun twice and found important evidence that he was not murdered. The present article will insist upon this project in order to explain some other mysteries about the death of Tutankhamun.
Keywords: The Egyptian Mummy project, the Mummy of Tutankhamun, theories on Tutankhamun's death.
We studied the Mummy with CT-Scan and found no evidence of a blow to the head and in fact, the hole on the back of his head was opened during the Mummification process to put the liquid inside the head.
When I received the CT-Scan machine from Siemens and the National Geographic as a gift; we thought that we should start to study the royal Mummies for the first time with the CT-Scan.
Howard Carter began on November 10, 1925 to remove the Lid of the third coffin. This was the coffin that topped the Mummy and is made of solid gold.
Carter was faced with many problems. He found that the second and the third coffins were stuck together and the golden mask was also stuck on the head of the Mummy. It seems that the Egyptians, during the burial, poured unguents over the king's body.1
Carter's first attempted solution was to remove the coffins from the tomb and place them outside, where the sun might warm the unguents enough to soften them. When this failed to work even after the temperature reached 149 degrees Fahrenheit (65 degrees Celsius), artificial heat was applied protecting the surface with Zinc plates and wet towels. Carter's team used paraffin wax lamps to heat the contents to more than 900 degrees Fahrenheit (500 degrees Celsius). Eventually this allowed them to separate the coffins.2
Carter moved the mummy outside the tomb and put it under the sun hopping that the mask can be taken out of the mummy. But it was useless, and then with the assistance of Douglas Derry, who was teacher of Anthropology at the faculty of medicine - Cairo University...