Causes of death
For a long time was the cause of the death of Tutankhamun, a controversial issue and there were a lot of conspiracy theories which suggest the idea that he did not die but was killed in the assassination. In the March 8, 2005 and as a result of the use of visualization Acharhristi three-dimensional on the mummy of Tutankhamun, said archaeologist Egyptian Zahi Hawass, that there was no evidence that Tutankhamun had been to the assassination, adding that the hole in the skull does not belong to the cause of receiving a blow to the head as was previously thought, but were the events of this slot after death for the purpose of embalming and the ills of Zahi Hawass, the fraction in the bone left thigh, which has long been linked to the theory of assassination as a result of a broken thigh bone suffered Tutankhamun before his death and may have inflammation resulting from this break has caused and death.
Showed the analysis of modern also said that the bone ceiling cavity buccal of Tutankhamun was not complete and the length of the stature of Tutankhamun 170 cm and the length accidental skull greater than the natural length, which many historians proposal disease Marfan's syndrome Marfan's syndrome as a cause of death early this situation and genetic transfer by autosomal dominant genes.
The final report of the Group of archaeologists of Egypt that the cause of death was blood poisoning as a result of fracture in the femur in which he was Tutankhamun, which led to Alگanگrin Gangrene which is a cell death and tissue degradation as a result of secretion of enzymes from the muscles of dead due to lack of oxygen to the blood .
Before this report there have been attempts to find out the cause of death using X-rays X-rays on the mummy of Tutankhamun at the University of Liverpool and University of Michigan in 1968 and 1978, respectively, and reached two universities to the discovery of dark spot under the skull of Tutankhamun from the back, which was interpreted Kinsev in the brain, which led to the spread of the hypothesis that he had received a blow on the head led to bleeding in the brain and death
In a study published in March 2010 indicated that the cause of death of Tutankhamun is suffering from malaria and complications from a broken leg, as the study pointed to the existence of some genetic diseases caused by a genetic defect inherited in the family.