Science Focus
Published: 09th June, 2023 at 18:00
Key clues to the cause of Tutankhamun’s death may have been overlooked, an Egyptologist has controversially claimed.
While research over the last two decades found that the Egyptian King loved wine and potentially died following a chariot crash, a contentious new theory suggests that joining these pieces of evidence brings us closer to the truth.
Biomedical Egyptologist Sofia Aziz proposes that it was a wine-induced high-speed chariot crash that led to Tutankhamun’s infected open wound. That’s right, a drink-driving accident.