TY  - JOUR
T1  - KIng tutankhamun’s family and demise
AU  - Baker BJ
Y1  - 2010/06/23
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2010.819
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2471
EP  - 2475
VL  - 303
IS  - 24
N2  - 
The KV55 skeletal remains were thoroughly analyzed after their 1907 discovery by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith,2 who estimated an age of 25 to 26 years based on direct observation of epiphyseal union throughout the skeleton. Re-examination by Ronald Harrison and Ahmed el Batrawi in 1963 augmented macroscopic examination with radiographs to ascertain the degree of fusion in some bones and assessed morphology of the right pubic symphysis to derive an age of 20 years at death.3 Both anatomists reported that the epiphyses of the medial clavicle; heads and tubercles of some ribs; and the inferior epiphyses of the fourth and fifth cervical, fourth thoracic, and superior fifth thoracic vertebrae are unfused, while the iliac crests and most rib epiphyses are partially fused, cranial sutures are entirely open, and the right maxillary third molar is not fully erupted (although the others are). These observations indicate an age range of 18 to 23 years. Further documentation, including union of all scapular epiphyses except the vertebral border, confirms this range.3

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.819
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.819
ER  -