Talk:Tutankhamun

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Minor spelling error

"One of the more common hypothesis...", under Parentage, should read "One of the more common hypotheses...", or "A common hypothesis..."

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Conflicting information

(Sorry, I don't know how to make a new section, so I added it here) "The tests also confirmed that he was the son of Akhenaten (mummy KV55) and his sister/wife (mummy KV35YL), whose name is unknown but whose remains are positively identified as "The Younger Lady" mummy found in KV35.[7]" This conflicts with the information in the side bar, which states that his Mother is "The Younger Lady." I don't know which information is correct. Tealpanda (talk) 18:05, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

According to JAMA and several egptologists including Discovery the KV35 cave, containing "The Younger Lady" is in fact Tutankhamuns mother, not sister/wife. This information was available since February of 2010. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter24g (talk • contribs) 18:34, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

The DNA tests conducted in 2010 concluded the foetuses found in Tutankhamun's tomb are daughters of his and a woman found in KV21 (nicknamed KV21A), who is now assumed to be his wife. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.20.254.72 (talk) 17:41, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Conflicting Issues of Death

The two sentences relating to how Tut had died seem to conflict with one another. Malaria could NOT have been found in his system if he had sickle cell disease. Sickle cell prevents malaria. This article explains it http://www.innvista.com/health/ailments/anemias/sickhist.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.113.241.26 (talk) 08:27, 21 August 2011 (UTC) Tutankhamen became the king of Egypt at the age of 9 and reined for 7 years and died at the age of 16, nobody knows how he died and that still remains a mistery, but he is a very important part of Egypt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.155.96.153 (talk) 06:43, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

His death may be a mystery, but he is not a 'very important part of Egypt' - he was basically forgotten until his tomb was discovered. He is very important (or rather his tomb is) to Egyptian archaeology. But he himself had no significant impact on Egyptian history - the rejection of the Aten cult was more seriously/completely accomplished by Horemheb. HammerFilmFan (talk) 09:37, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Help in adding a newly released reference to the article

I request help to add a newly released reference to the article about both daughters of Tutankhamun. The reference can be added at the end of (Life) section following this sentence: (They had two daughters, both stillborn.[7])...I suggest to add this sentence: (CT studies revealed that one daughter died at 5-6 months of pregnancy while the other at 9 months of pregnancy. There were no evidence of congenital anomalies or apparent cause of death in either mummy) (new Reference). New reference: Hawass, Zahi and Saleem, Sahar N. Mummified daughters of King Tutankhamun: Archaeological and CT studies. The American Journal of Roentgenology 2011. Vol 197, No. 5 p. W829-836 Saharnsaleem (talk) 00:07, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

What is your reasoning for not adding this yourself? Is it because you don't know the wikimarkup to make the citation of the reference work? If so, here's an example of the code you could use yourself. The reason I'm doing this is because not only is it better if you gain some understanding by doing it yourself, but it's better for the article if the person who actually supports an edit actually makes the edit. I have also made a few tweaks to your suggested text, taking it out of parentheses, making one part a link, and stating that the study was conducted in 2011, which you need to check me on if you're going to use it, since I made an assumption there and don't have access to the source:

[[X-ray computed tomography|CT]] studies conducted in 2011 revealed that one daughter died at 5-6 months of pregnancy while the other at 9 months of pregnancy. No evidences was found of congenital anomalies or the apparent cause of death in either mummy.<ref>Hawass, Zahi and Saleem, Sahar N. Mummified daughters of King Tutankhamun: Archaeological and CT studies. The American Journal of Roentgenology 2011. Vol 197, No. 5 p. W829-836</ref>

As I think you'll see, all I really did was add ref tags around your citation listing, i.e. <ref>citations text</ref> Some people use a citation template between the ref tags to make the citation's formatting consistent (here one would probably use {{cite journal}}) but it is not required.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 07:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips. I checked the page before I post my question; it is semiprotected and I am not entitled to edit it. That's why I asked the Wiki Talk page and they advised me to ask someone to do it on this talk page. Please clarify this point if I can edit myself or not in this particular pageSaharnsaleem (talk) 08:02, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

I had considered that but the article is only semi-protected, meaning an editor must be autoconfirmed to edit it, which you are. Specifically, this means that users must have made at least ten edits and their accounts must be four days or more old, both of which applies to you, so you should be able to edit directly. If you are not able to edit there are only two things I know of which can cause that: people editing using a TOR network I have heard may be stopped from editing by semi-protection, and also, there is a bug I have seen where the page only provides the "view source" button, instead of the "edit this page" button, but this is a display error only; if you click on view source, you can edit anyway.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 08:47, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

I added the reference. Thanks all for your helpSaharnsaleem (talk) 09:55, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

You're most welcome.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:28, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Bold textTutenkamun did have malaria when he died but because he had sickle cell disease the symtons were smaller and he didn't die of the atual malariaUjy moojy (talk) 18:47, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Special Characters

What are the special characters used in the table at the bottom? I can't get Firefox for Mac or Safari to display them using any number of Western or Unicode character encodings. Might be nice to include evidence of the correct encoding to use. Sojambi Pinola (talk) 11:47, 2 January 2012 (UTC)