"King Tut - Boy Warrior?" Topic
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Editor in Chief Bill | 26 Mar 2018 1:13 p.m. PST |
King Tutankhamun may have been a boy soldier, stunning new research claims, challenging the theory that the King was a weak and sickly youth before his mysterious death at around 18 years of age… link |
Eclectic Wave | 26 Mar 2018 2:25 p.m. PST |
King Tut is a unusual burial in that his heart is missing, a HUGH deal for the Egyptians. And he has a very atypical embalming, with evidence of chest trauma. Some think it was because he died a long way from hone and had to be shipped back or some have theorized is because he died in battle. |
Eclectic Wave | 26 Mar 2018 2:43 p.m. PST |
Two more things: In King Tut's mummy wrappings where found two daggers, one made out of gold, and even more rare, one with a iron blade (in a time period when Egyptians did not work iron). The blade of the Iron Dagger has been tested and is made from meteoric ore, meaning the iron came from a meteorite. Also, there are a number of trumpets in King Tut's tomb goods. These are not musical trumpets, but war trumpets, used to direct troops in the field. Odd for a "sickly weak" king. |
Bellbottom | 26 Mar 2018 6:49 p.m. PST |
I saw that TV programme recently and it didn't tell us anything we didn't know. Complete load of rubbish. All New Kingdom Pharoahs were depicted in military frescos like that, it's formulaic. The weaponry found was probably similar to that in most Pharonic tombs, only his was the only tomb that survived intact. Massive amounts of wild speculation, may, could, possibly etc, just bending things to fit their hypotheses. Why do they keep repeating what they said before the commercial break, after the commercial break? Do the think we have so short an attention span that we can't remember? This programme boiled my bodily fluids, pure speculation with little evidence, and massive amounts of sensationalist guff, repeated over and over by people, allegedly knowledgable scientists, who should know better. |
ancientsgamer | 26 Mar 2018 10:27 p.m. PST |
My understanding is he was quite deformed from inbreeding. National Geographic showed a composite 3D image of him looking very deformed in limb. |
Bellbottom | 27 Mar 2018 3:11 a.m. PST |
His father was deformed too. |
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