King Tut Mysteries Solved: Was Disabled, Malarial, Inbred

Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 01:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The "frail boy" needed a cane to walk, had history's earliest genetically proven case of malaria, and was sired by siblings, says a new DNA study of King Tut and relatives.

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