Scientists have found that King Tutankhamun suffered from several ailments throughout his life and died of malaria. The results are being published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Not All That Tutankhamun
The people who write for the AMA
Finally have something important to say
Now that they’ve tested the DNA
Of the mummy we know as King Tut.
JAMA says doctors now all agree
And are ready to come right out and decree
That the boy king had problems like you and like me.
And their case is now open and shut.
He suffered clubfoot throughout all his reign,
And the malady seems to have kept him in pain;
And though it’s unlikely it affected his brain,
He lived with discomfort each day.
He lived with great pain from his toes to his knees;
No end of suff’ring with Kohler’s disease,
Existence was hardly what you’d call a breeze,
Until malaria took him away.
Copyright 2010 Jim Gordon
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