Post #2 - Unit 2(King Tut's Family Secrets)

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King Tut's Family Secrets

 

In this writing, Zahi Hawass, Egyptian minister of state for Antiques, explains how his research team found the King Tut's family secrets by science technologies. When the King Tut's tomb was discovered, he was buried with a lot of artifacts including gold coffin, gold mask and golden fan. Furthermore, the team figured out a hole in the back of his skull and two mummified fetuses in his tomb. But, they used modern science technology to solve the mysterious questions like 'Who were his parents?', 'Who were the two fetuses buried with him?' and 'Why was he died?'.

So, they found out that he didn't die because of the hole in the back of his skull by CT scans. But, it didn't solve how he had died and why he had died at a early age. After 3 years, they analyzed his DNA sample from his bone and catched some new discoveries. It is that he had a twisted foot and didn't have a bone with his one toe, so he couldn't walk well. And, the staffs who were buried in his tomb doesn't mean symbols of his power. It was just because he needed them to walk. Even the research team found he had suffered from malaria.

However, the reason why he was so weak in nature is the Tutankhamun's royal family. They inspectes DNA samples from 10 mummies and discovered that King Tut's father and mother were siblings. Consequently, this relationship made him have a dangerous health system and caused him to die young. Moreover, one female mummy which was buried with him was his wife, Nefertiti. But, she was his half sister, so maybe the two fetuses might have had defective genetic character like their father.

After he was dead, Ramses 1 became a new king in Egypt. As he made his country more bigger and bigger, he wanted to remove all trace of King Tut and his royal family. And now, the research team is trying to record their history.