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The Journal of the American Medical Society doesn’t mostly check into autopsy results. But they style an quibble this week: for Ruler Tut. The swat of the boy king complex DNA analysis and CAT scans.

Researchers [led by Zahi Hawass of the Brilliant Cabinet of Antiquities in Cairo, Egypt] acclimatized genetic fingerprints from Tut and 10 presumed relatives to map out his most accurate five-generation stock tree to steady old-fashioned. It reveals a house portrayal of clubfoot and scoliosis. And CAT scans of Tut turned up foot deformities, like a missing toe bone, and bone necrosis, which means some of his foot bones were moribund due to pitiful blood affair. Previous scans had identified a femur division.