REVIEW BY ROGER FORSHAW
This brief book by W Benson Harer discusses the controversial question of what caused the death of Tutankhamun, with the author strongly supporting the view that the king was killed by a hippopotamus. Within the publication is a chapter by Peter Sheldrick, a physician who has worked with mummies in the Dakhleh Oasis for more than 40 years, and who concurs with this hypothesis.
Benson Harer considers that there are various anomalous aspects of Tutankhamun’s mummy which have been overlooked in previous studies, and that too many of the theories published concentrate on one or two observations, while ignoring the overall picture and associated facts, in particular the anatomical findings of the various studies: the missing sternum and much of the rib cage; the intact diaphragm; and the missing heart.
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