King Tut Died From Infection, Not Trauma Or Any Other.

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

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King Tutankhamun died of an infection set in by a wound in the left knee, according reports in the Italian press which disclose the conclusions of new research on the 3,300-year-old boy pharaoh...

[Pertinax]

How very odd-the one thing the Egyptian's were adept at was the use of wound dressings-usually a paste of verdigris and honey- perhaps sepsis and trauma overwhelmed the victim.

[M. Porcius Cato]

How very odd-the one thing the Egyptian's were adept at was the use of wound dressings-usually a paste of verdigris and honey- perhaps sepsis and trauma overwhelmed the victim.

But what if the injury caused internal bleeding?

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

Apparently you didn't read the whole article which gives clear reasons why Tut died from infection.

[M. Porcius Cato]

FVC, who "you"?

[Pertinax]

I saw the "gold dragged into wound" comment -but armour pushed into a wound (of any type or magnificence) is exactly the combat medicine skill these people had as an intelligible response to (and acceptable as a modern deep fleshwound treatment-ive just been perusing some clinicals on unrefined/unhomogenised wild honey with propolis and bee venom as a deep dressing for burn/trauma/plastic manipulation wounds-the stuff suffocates bacterians and sterilises very nicely).

 

nb: just as an aside the Ancient Chinese used powdered gold as a wound dressing.

Edited February 5, 2006 by Pertinax