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„Die Halsverletzung ist erst in der Computertomographie sichtbar geworden“, berichtet Zahi Hawass, der als ehemaliger Generalsekretär der ägyptischen Altertümerverwaltung die Mumie bereits des Öfteren zu Gesicht bekommen hatte. „Klar war, dass Ramses 1155 v. Chr. im Alter von etwa 65 Jahren gestorben war, doch kannten wir vorher nicht die Todesursache“, fährt er fort.
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A team of scientists around the Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, Carsten Pusch, geneticist at the University of Tübingen and Albert Zink, palaeopathologist at the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC), have subjected the Pharaoh’s mummy to computed tomography scans, molecular genetic analysis and radiological investigations. The analysis of the CT images, carried out in both Bolzano/Bozen and Cairo, indicate that the pharaoh’s throat had been cut while he was still alive. “The neck wound only became visible through the use of computed tomography”, reports Zahi Hawass who, as former General Secretary of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, has had access to the mummy on numerous occasions. “It was clear that Ramesses had died in 1156 BC, roughly at the age of 65, but the cause of his death had not been known,” he continues. The injury is hidden by neck bandages.
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