King Tut's Health: New Mummy Scans Refute Old Diagnosis of Pharaohs

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 07:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Several ancient Egyptian pharaohs, such as Ramesses the Great and King Tut, didn't have a painful inflammatory disorder called ankylosing spondylitis as scientists had thought. But they did have mild back disorder linked to old age.

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