Scan Of Mummy Reveals Pharaoh Died With His Throat Slit
The Mummy of Rameses III Hawass et al./British Medical JournalCT scans show how Rameses III--the last "great" king of Egypt--went to his tomb. The end of the Egyptian pharaoh Rameses III's reign was never meant to be a mystery for the ages. The Egyptians left behind a number of detailed historical documents that clearly lay out some basic details: In the year 1155 BC, members of the pharaoh's harem attempted to kill him as part of a coup. The plan was found out and the conspirators were tried in court, convicted, and punished. But the Egyptian scribes were vague on a few arguably important points. For one, they failed to put down, in straightforward language, whether or not the assassination was successful. Egyptologists have mostly interpreted cryptic phrases like "the overturning of the royal bark" to mean that the Rameses III was in fact dead before the trial, but...