Scientists reveal the mystery of the death of one of Egypt's "greatest pharaohs"

Scientists from Cairo University in Egypt, with the help of tomography, revealed the details of the death of the pharaoh who ruled southern Egypt 3576 years ago.

According to the scientific journal Frontiers in Medicine, a CT scan showed that Pharaoh Seknen Ra Taa II, nicknamed "The Brave," died of several serious head injuries without any injuries to the body.

The theories differed as to the cause of the king’s death, some of them speculating that the king had been killed in a battle, perhaps by the King of the Hyksos himself, and others indicated that Seknen Ra Taa II may have been killed by a conspiracy while he slept in his palace, and others suggested that the mummification may have taken place in a hurry away

 from the workshop Embalming property, due to the poor condition of the mummy.

Sahar Salem, a professor of radiology at Cairo University, who specializes in ancient palaeontology, explained that the two-dimensional and three-dimensional CT scans, which were installed by advanced computer technologies, showed that the pharaoh was killed when he was 40, in addition to the presence of deformation in the arms, and she said: It appears that it is Seknen Ra-Taa II had already been captured on the battlefield, and his hands were tied behind his back, which prevented him from deflecting the fierce attack from his face.

The researcher added, "This indicates that Seknen Ra was really on the front line with his soldiers, risking his life with his soldiers to liberate Egypt."

Salem added, "The results indicate that he was killed by multiple Hyksos attackers who defeated him from different angles and with different weapons, so the killing of Sagnin Ra was rather a ceremonial execution."

According to the magazine, the computerized tomography revealed important details about the embalming of the body of Seknen Ra Taa II, as the embalmed people used an advanced method to hide the wounds of the king's head under a layer of embalming material that works similar to the fillings used in modern plastic surgery, and this means that the embalming was done in a workshop Mummified already and not in a non-infectious place, as previously explained.

And the mummy of Seknen Ra Taa II was discovered in the Deir al-Bahari cache in 1881, and was examined for the first time at that time, as well as the mummy was studied by x-ray in the 1960s.

Pharaoh Seknen Ra Taa II ruled southern Egypt during the occupation of the country by the Hyksos, who seized the delta in northern Egypt for a century from 1650 to 1550 BC.