Pharaoh May Have Died of Ear Infection
Electronic pictures of a mummy accepted to be the 3,000-year-old group of Pharaoh Ramses I show that the granddad of Ramses the Great likely kicked the bucket of a serious ear contamination, specialists from Emory University said Tuesday at a Chicago gathering of the Radiological Society of North America. The pictures, at right, indicate that his ear was disfigured
Electronic pictures of a mummy accepted to be the 3,000-year-old group of Pharaoh Ramses I show that the granddad of Ramses the Great likely kicked the bucket of a serious ear contamination, specialists from Emory University said Tuesday at a Chicago gathering of the Radiological Society of North America. The pictures, at right, indicate that his ear was disfigured
potentially as the aftereffect of a terrible piercing, and that he endured an extreme and dangerous ear disease that may have been the reason for death, said Dr. Heidi Hoffman. Different pictures demonstrate that the author of Egypt's most excellent tradition was likely not circumcised, that his skull was loaded with liquid pitch throughout embalmment, and that his stomach organs were swapped with firmly moved material packs.