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Summary Of Mystery Of King Tut's Death

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Article Review 2 In the second article review of the semester I read Matthew Rosenbaum’s “Mystery of King Tut’s Death Solved?”. Dr. Hutan Ashrafian a scientist at the Imperial College London insists that King Tut may have died from a chronic neurological condition called temporal lobe epilepsy. He states that King Tut had Gynecomastia which explains why he had enlarged breasts and that it ran in his family. King Tut’s relatives who were also rulers happened to die at relatively young ages according to Ashrafian which showed “a sign of a genetic inheritance of some sort” (Ashrafian). King Tut’s father Akhenaten then attempted to switch the religion of Egypt to a monotheistic based religion that emphasized on their God of Aten. Rosenbaum says

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