CAIRO – Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club
foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications
from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive
study ever of his more than 3,300-year-old mummy.

The findings were from two years of DNA testing and CT scans on 16 mummies,
including those of Tutankhamun and his family, the team that carried out the
study said in an article to be published Wednesday in the Journal of the
American Medical Association.


[image: A replica of the death mask of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun ...]


n this photo taken on Nov. 4, 2007, the feet of King Tutankhamun are seen at
the moving of the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tut from his stone sarcophagus
in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.
Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot,
likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a
broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study
ever of his mummy. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

[image: In this photo taken on Nov. 4, 2007, the feet of King Tutankhamun
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[image: FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, the face of ...]

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, the face of the
linen-wrapped mummy of King Tutankhamun is seen in his new glass case in his
underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's
famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely
forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken
leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of
his mummy.

[image: Replicas of statues showing Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun are ...]

[image: A replica of the burial chamber of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun ...]

[image: In this Feb. 15, 2010 photo, women look at one of the coffins ...]

[image: FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, an archaeological worker
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Antiquities ...]

[image: In this Feb. 15, 2010 photo, tourists crowd around the golden ...]

[image: FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, Egypt's antiquities ...]


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