NILE Magazine, issue 43, July 2026. Cover story.

I am delighted to announce that my latest article is out now in Nile Magazine. A huge thank you to the editor Jeff Burzacott.

In 2025 the Grand Egyptian Museum opened, but another anniversary passed almost unnoticed: a hundred years since the first forensic examination of Tutankhamun’s body. A century of scrutiny has left us with countless theories, speculation and sensational headlines.

This article presents my position on his health and death. I revisit the club foot diagnosis and argue that mummification, excavation damage and the destructive 1925 autopsy can together produce pseudopathology that closely mimics congenital deformity. I set malaria in a genuinely endemic environment, where surviving to nineteen tells its own story. And I return to the fracture of the left distal femur, which remains the most significant unresolved finding from the 2005 CT scans.