Katherine Griffis-Greenberg Wrote:
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> Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> > Didn't KMT have a recent article suggesting
> that
> > the rib damage was done recently--sometime
> after
> > Carter but before Hawass?
>
> I've heard this, but I haven't read the article.
> I'll say that I'm not very convinced by this
> argument, however, as the chest still looked the
> same way in 2005 as it did in the Burton 1925
> photo, IMO. The necklace beads around the neck
> and chest had been removed, but the CT shows still
> a solid mass at the chest in the scan (best image
> of the chest can be found in National Geographic,
> June 2005: 7-8).

The TV programme suggested that the damage was caused by post-Carter robbers - probably WWII, when, so it was alleged, the mummy was left unguarded. The supposed thieves were apparently after precious objects believed to be hidden somewhere in the chest cavity. I found it difficult to imagine something like that taking place in the modern era on such a high-profile object ...

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