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Tutankhamun

The Ancients

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The History of Tutankhamun

There's a lot of debate over Tutankhamun whether he had damage to his leg which would give him mobility issues. His mummy has a damaged left foot and it has been suggested that he might have had a club foot but club feet, quite often, or not club feet, appear in a mummy if you bandage the foot too tightly, too soon. So again, we have divided experts with something TutankhamUn as basically a disabled Pharaoh who can barely walk and some seeing him as having no walking issues at all - just his foot was damaged after death when he was bandaged. Depending on how you interpret it depends how you see his life as a child as well I think

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