HI Ritva: You wrote: "While I completely agree with you about Carter having basically massacred poor Tutankhamun's mummy (all of the joints are separated!!!),"

That's the point that I've tried to make on this and other boards. The body was basically destroyed after it was heated with zinc plates and then ripped apart by carter. These were 3,500 year old bones that he was fooling around with that were embedded already in hard resin. The reverberation alone from all this hammering and heating and cooling must have led to additional micro fractures and along with major ones from physically disarticulating his body. When I went to the Tut show in LA as I reported on another string, there was a short film on the xraying proceedure and it said that every single bone in his body had been fractured, even the finger tips. We are not dealing with a pristine body or skeleton in any sense of the word. NObody with the, exception of me as far as I can tell, has said let's get back to basics and consider the physics and chemistry of Carter's demolition of the body first and get away from all this speculation of what happened 3500 years ago.

Thanks Ritva didn't know that!But as far as the rib cage goes, it's still there in it's entirety and was never missing. The original X-rays were of poor quality and it was very difficult to see the ribs, hence all the scenarios of brutal murder and what not. sad smiley


Warwick I agree with you that makes the most sense so far!