A three-dimensional X-ray scan of Tutankhamun's mummy found no evidence to support theories that he was murdered but failed to solve the 3,000-year-old mystery of how the young Egyptian pharaoh died.

Some members of the investigative team say he might have died from an infected thigh wound, but others doubt this, saying that injury may have been inflicted later by archaeologists, according to the team's five-page report released yesterday...

[More], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, March 09, 2005.

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One of the great mysteries of ancient Egypt has just become a little less mysterious. Scientists who've been studying the 3,300-year-old mummy of King Tutankhamen say computerized scans contradict the long-held theory that a blow to the head killed the boy pharaoh...

[More]   National Public Radio, USA, March 9, 2005.