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Give reasons for the following.
Explain the statement, “King Tut is one of the first mummies to be scanned — in death, as in life ...”
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Solution
The above line indicates that King Tut’s body was the first to be scanned under a computer tomography machine. Just like King Tut might have led his kingdom when alive, he led the experience of being scanned among the mummies.
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