Journal
TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
Volume 15, Issue 11, Pages 1278-1280Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02614.x
Keywords
Tutankhamun; sickle cell disease; Gaucher's disease; malaria; Kohler's disease
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The cause of death of the Egyptian pharoah Tutankhamun has now for decades been matter of speculation and various hypotheses. A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) provided new evidence and suggested malaria, together with Kohler's disease, as the most probable cause of death of the boy king. We are sceptical towards this elucidation of the cause of death of King Tut and discuss alternative and differential diagnoses, among them, in particular, sickle cell disease and Gaucher's disease.
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