Recent findings about the physical condition of King Tut, who died at the age of 19 some 3,300 years ago, show him to have been a fragile individual with many physical problems. DNA testing indicated his parents were siblings, a common practice among pharaohs of that period. Tut apparently had a club foot and shuffered from Kohler's syndrome, a disease that still affects children today:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2708235/rare_kohlers_disease_affected_bones.html?cat=37
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