"British archaeologist Howard Carter and a team of Egyptian excavators discovered the famous tomb in the Valley of the Kings, but found Tut's body had become stuck to the inside of his coffin over the centuries. When Carter's team couldn't free Tut's body from the resin it had been covered in during the ancient burial, they used heated knives to slice 'The Boy King' out of his final resting place and conduct an autopsy."
"However, Tutankhamun's dismemberment was so gruesome that Carter left out the details from all three volumes of his book series, which documented the historic excavation. A century later, some researchers, including Eleanor Dobson from the University of Birmingham, have claimed that Carter intentionally covered up the grisly beheading of Tutankhamun to avoid public outrage. These claims gained even more traction when researchers in the 1960s and 1970s discovered that Tutankhamun's body had been glued back together after the autopsy to give the appearance of an undisturbed body."
"Despite Carter not mentioning the details of Tut's autopsy in his book series, shocking photographs of the dismemberment were taken and have been preserved by the University of Oxford's Griffith Institute, so the public can now see the damage for themselves."
Howard Carter and a team of Egyptian excavators discovered Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1925. The mummy had become stuck to its coffin by thick black resins and oils poured during burial, and Carter's team used heated knives to cut the body free and perform an autopsy. The corpse was decapitated and the limbs severed into several pieces, then later glued back together to appear intact. Carter omitted these grisly details from his published volumes, but photographs of the dismemberment survive at the University of Oxford's Griffith Institute. Debate persists about whether alternative removal methods were feasible with 1920s resources.
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