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A recent DNA study uncovers how malaria and genetic illness have played a major role in the death of Egypt’s boy king, Tutankhamun.


DNA research reveals repeated malaria infections may have led to Tutankhamun’s early death, changing how we understand the young pharaoh’s fate.

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