King Tut, that most famous of mummies, may yet have some secrets to spill. Researchers have reanalyzed the teenage king’s remains and determined that his broken bones indicate he died after being hit by a chariot—and that, adding insult to injury, his mummification was botched, leading his corpse to spontaneously combust inside its sarcophagus.
The chariot-crash evidence came from a “virtual autopsy” of the body using X-ray and CAT scans. To reconstruct the accident, lead researcher Chris Naunton, director of the Egypt Exploration Society in the UK, enlisted the help of car crash investigators, reports the Daily Mail:
Dr. Naunton used the latest technology to reconstruct the death of the pharaoh and now believes a high-speed chariot crash was the cause of his death. He said: “We believe there is now a very distinct possibility that he was struck by a chariot wheel in the torso at high speed – ...
