Tut Ankh Amen Not Murdered, CASE CLOSED.
<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=82 BGCOLOR="#999980" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Verdana" ><B>High Culture</B></FONT><B> </B><B>|</B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B> </B><A HREF="index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="High Culture"><U><B>home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="07702b03.gif"> <div> <I>Tut Ankh Amen Not Murdered, CASE CLOSED.</I></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="646" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 2236 WIDTH="638"><div> <B>Tut Ankh Amen Not Murdered, Case Close.</B></div> <bR> <div> The latest CT study on King Tut Ankh Amen is crucial. It has long been supposed by European historians that the boy King was <B>murdered</B> by one of the Court Officials during the political instability during the Amarna period. Of course, this is simply Europeans projecting their own political instability onto Ancient African history without any primary evidence to support the claim.</div> <bR> <div> Now it has been verified with the rigors of modern technology, that the King did not receive a lethal bludgeoning blow to the back of the head, nor was he deformed, physically handicapped or suffering from any degenerative or pathological diseases. </div> <bR> <div> For all we know the king simply may have died on his own.</div> <bR> <div> And the spirit of the king will rest a little easier now that the King's penis which was initially intact, then later disappeared, has now again reappeared.</div> <bR> <div> The following emblazoned and red text are my comments, in response to this latest new item regarding the one of our more popularized ancient personalities.</div> <div> -------------------------------------------------------------</div> <bR> <div> Article original published in Reuters.co.uk </div> <div> http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=7837783</div> <bR> <div> <B>No Sign Tutankhamen Murdered But Mystery Unsolved.</B></div> <div> Tue Mar 8, 2005 12:20 PM ET </div> <bR> <div> By Amena Bakr</div> <bR> <div> CAIRO (Reuters) - A three-dimensional X-ray scan of Tutankhamen's mummy found <B>no evidence to support theories he was murdered</B> but failed to solve the 3,000-year-old mystery of how the young Egyptian pharaoh died.</div> <bR> <div> Some members of the investigative team say he may have died from an infected thigh wound, but others doubt this, saying that injury may have been inflicted later by archaeologists, according to the team's five-page report released on Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Either way, the team's chairman says the case should now be closed and the tomb of the king who died in 1352 BC, aged about 19, should not be disturbed again.</div> <bR> <div> Some historians have speculated the ruler was murdered, based on his young age and the turbulent political and religious circumstances during that period of Egyptian history.</div> <bR> <div> "<B>We don't know how the king died, but we are now sure that it was not murder.</B> Maybe he died on his own," said Zahi Hawas, chairman of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.</div> <bR> <div> "The case is closed. We should not disturb the king any more," he told Reuters after the report came out.</div> <bR> <div> At last, Zahi Hawass is making sense. Leave the <I>khat</I>/mummy alone. This is an example of the ancient African spiritual culture being completely disrespected by repeatedly exhuming the remains and poking and probing his body. We should remember that the Old Africans have left numerous illustrations that depict Ba frequently returning to, resting on, or trying to re-enter the <I>khat/</I>mummy. The old Africans also believed damaged done to the physical body subsequently transferred to the <I>khat</I>. Since we can not disprove any of these ideas, we must respect them.</div> <bR> <div> "There is no evidence that the young king was murdered," said a press release attached to the report.</div> <bR> <div> The report said some but not all of the eight team members suggested he may have died after a serious accident in which he broke his thigh, leaving an open wound which became infected.</div> <bR> <div> "Although the break itself would not have been life-threatening, infection might have set in," the report said, citing those members of the team. The others disagreed.</div> <bR> <div> There is no professional agreement on this point. So we do not have to concede that the king suffered from a life threatening wound.</div> <bR> <div> Tutankhamen came to the throne shortly after the death of Akenaten, the maverick pharaoh who abandoned most of Egypt's old gods and tried to imposed a monotheistic religion based on worship of the Aten, the disc of the sun.</div> <bR> <div> Akhenaten was not the first king to close down the temples of the other Ntr's, this also happened in the Old Kingdom under the reign of Khafre.</div> <bR> <div> During Tutankhamun's reign, which lasted about 10 years, advocates of the old religion were regaining control of the country, turning their back on Akhenaten's innovations.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The report said the CT scan performed in January found no evidence of a blow to the back of Tutankhamun's head and no other evidence of foul play</B>.</div> <bR> <div> We have to ask ourselves. Why would there be foul play in <B>the royal court </B>of a spiritual civilization that practiced <I>Ma'at</I> (truth, justice, and righteousness). Political foul play is all to common in Europe, and <B>their</B> psyche is projected <B>their </B>historical reality onto the Old Africans. There is no evidence.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>IN GOOD HEALTH</B></div> <div> They found that Tutankhamun had a bent spine and an elongated skull but they ruled out pathological causes. They believe the shape of the skull to be a normal variation and the spine resulted from the way the embalmers positioned the body.</div> <bR> <div> Again, we see the Europeans projecting some kind of degenerate diseases on the ancient King, with a total lack of evidence. If the king was weakened by a degenerative disease, why are their so many numerous illustrations of <I>Tut ankh amen </I>hunting and riding his chariots. </div> <bR> <div> We know that these illustrations are not idealized motifs, because archeologist have uncovered the Kings chariots and his hunting hear. These are not the activities of some sickly boy with a weak spine or degenerate disease!</div> <bR> <div> "<B>Judging from his bones, the king was generally in good health </B>... There are no signs of malnutrition or infectious disease during childhood," the report added.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Addressing the murder theory, the report noted that the king had two bone fragments loose in his skull. But it adds: "These cannot possibly have come from an injury from before death, as they would have become stuck in the embalming material."</B></div> <bR> <div> The team believes the fragments were broken during the embalming process <B>or by the team led by British archaeologist Howard Carter, who discovered Tutankhamun's intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings in southern Egypt in 1922.</B></div> <bR> <div> Howard Carter bashed, cut, gouged, and even burnt the king in an attempt to liberate him from his mummy wrappings. The damage more than likely done in modern times. We should safely assume that the quality of the other royal 18th Dynasty mummies indicates that King Tut Ankh Amen was handled with the greatest of care. He *did not* suffer from similar poor craftsmanship and handling by the embalmers. Nothing else in his entire tomb shows poor craftsmanship. On the other hand, he was given the best!</div> <bR> <div> But lets turn this around. Here we see the Western mind is trying to shift the focus of modern destructive activities onto the ancient Africans! For crying out loud. Howard Carter attacked King Tut Ankh Amen's <I>khat </I>with a chisel and hammer in order to break the body free from the protective embalming resins which over time had become as hard as stone. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Advocates of the broken thigh theory noted that there was embalming material inside the thigh wound and no obvious evidence that the wound healed, suggesting the fracture took place only days before death.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>But other members of the team said the fracture was the work of Carter's team when they removed the mummy from the coffin.</B> "They argue that if such a fracture had been suffered in life, there would have been evidence for hemorrhage or hematoma present in the CT scan. They believe the embalming liquid was pushed into the fracture by Carter's team," the report said.</div> <bR> <div> Again, read Howard Carter's notes on the discovery of the King.</div> <bR> <div> The team thinks it has found Tutankhamun's penis, which was present in the 1920s but had gone missing by the time of an examination in 1968. "Although they cannot be certain, the team believes that they have located (it) ... loose in the sand around the king's body," the report said.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="638"><div> <I><B>Illustrations</B></I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 483 WIDTH="638"><div> <B>Excavators photographs of the famous mask of King </B><I><B>Tut Ankh Amen</B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >.</FONT></div> <div> <IMG SRC="0d72c9f0.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="415" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="0d8199f0.jpg" border=0 width="281" height="415" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Royal likeness of King <I>Tut Ankh Amen. </I>Howard Carter the Egyptologist who uncovered the tomb</div> <div> <I>of Tut Ankh Amen</I> believed that the finer images of Tutankhamen were indeed portraits of the ruler, based upon comparisons with his <I>khat</I>(mummy).</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 580 WIDTH="638"><div> <B>Supposed portrait of King showing elongated skull*. </B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="0d0eae00.jpg" border=0 width="234" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="0d206e00.jpg" border=0 width="262" height="480" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Based upon my careful analysis and comparisons with the surviving images of the King and his royal sisters, I am convinced this bust is in fact <B>not </B>a portrait of King Tut. My report will be detailed in later web publication.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 411 WIDTH="638"><div> <B>The Supposed cranium of </B><A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/anubis4_2000/mummypages1/18C.htm" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://members.tripod.com/anubis4_2000/m"><U><I><B>Amenhotep IV/Akenaten</B></I></U></A><B>.</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="0da2c260.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="294" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This cranium also exhibits the elongated skull characteristic of the Amarna art phases, which has led Egyptologist to believe this is the cranium of <I>Akenaten </I>or possibly a relative known as <I>Smenkara</I>. Based upon the CT scan of Tut Ankh Amen, it is now apparent that he did not suffer from a degenerated disease which caused his cranium to be elongated (<I>c.f.</I> <A HREF="http://www.marfan.org/nmf/GetSubContentRequestHandler.do?sub_menu_item_content_id=3&menu_item_id=2" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.marfan.org/nmf/GetSubContentR"><U>marfan's syndrome</U></A>). We should hold strong to the position that Akhenaten, the boys father was also not a degenerate, <B>Untill concrete evidence comes along which forces us to change our position.</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 168 WIDTH="638"><div> <B>Forensic reconstruction of King Tut Ankh Amen.</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="0d9b9950.jpg" border=0 width="185" height="149" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 49 WIDTH="638"><div> <I><B>Outside Links</B></I></div> <div> The following links have material that relates the subject, but we are not responsible for this information, as we did not publish it. Read carefully.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 145 WIDTH="638"><div> For those interested in viewing the remains of King Tut, they can be viewed <A HREF="http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/perl/gi-ca-qmakesumm.pl?sid=64.160.132.130-1110298997&qno=1&curr=256" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/perl/gi-ca-qm"><U>here</U></A>.</div> <div> But in the interest of preserving the sanctity of the King's remains. </div> <div> <I>Please do not casually view these images, which essentially disrespects the King.</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Historical Propoganda / Colonizing the Past!</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://dsc.discovery.com/anthology/unsolvedhistory/kingtut/kingtut.html" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://dsc.discovery.com/anthology/unsol"><U>The Assissination of King Tut.</U></A></div> <div> Notice how they repeatedly refer to the ancient African King with the disrespectful name "King Tut." </div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Copyright (c) <B>6245</B>, Alexander Derrick. 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