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Like the Dybbuk box, the supposed curse against anyone who disturbs the tomb of the boy-king Tut still seems to be powerful today, as a group of radiologists discovered.

Dr. Ashraf Selim and his team ran King Tut’s mummy through a CT scan in order to affirm that the cause of his death was a fatal injury that became infected, rather than a blow to the head, which would have suggested that Tut was murdered. While examining the mummy, the doctors did not escape Tut’s curse. Selim says, “While performing the CT scan of King Tut, we had several strange occurrences. The electricity suddenly went out, the CT scanner could not be started and a team member became ill. If we weren’t scientists, we might have become believers in the Curse of the Pharaohs.”
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Three different teams have computer scanned the Egyptianboy-king Tut’s mummy recently, and they’ve all come up withthe same conclusion: he was no beauty. He had anunusually elongated, narrow skull, big lips, buckteeth and a receding chin. Tut died in an accident (somethink he was murdered) at age 9 in 1325 BC. We’ve all heardof him because his was one of the few Egyptian tombs that,when it was discovered in 1922, was intact, and it wascrammed with relics made of gold, which have been exhibitedin museums around the world.

In order to create the facial reconstructions, over 17003-dimensional photos of the mummy were taken with CT scans(also known as CAT scans). They were then put together withthe help of a computer.
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