Nezinqola zomlilo

(eTN)- Inqola yomfana waseGibhithe uFaro King Tutankhamun izohambela eNew York City. Kungokokuqala ukuthi inqola evela ethuneni likaTutankhamun ivunyelwe ukuphuma eGibhithe. UMkhandlu Ophakeme Wamasiko uthumela inqola e-Tutankhamun kanye ne-Golden Age yombukiso woFaro e-Discovery Times Square Exhibit.

UDkt. Zahi Hawass, uNobhala Jikelele woMkhandlu Ophakeme Wezinto Zasendulo uthe inqola efika eNew York namuhla izohambisana nomlondolozi kanye noMqondisi weLuxor Musuem lapho inqola iboniswa khona.

U-Hawass uthe, “Kungokokuqala ngqa ukuthi inqola iphume e-Egypt ngesikhathi esisodwa empilweni yabantu baseNew York ukubona into ebaluleke kakhulu empilweni yomfana wenkosi.” Le nqola iyingqayizivele futhi ivelele phakathi kwezinye izinqola ezinhlanu ezitholakala phakathi kwamagugu okungcwaba kaTutankamun. UHoward Carter wathola inqola ekhoneni eliseningizimu-mpumalanga ye-Antechamber kanye nezinye izinqola ezintathu. Ayinamhlobiso ngokuphelele futhi inokwakhiwa okuvulekile emaceleni okulula kakhulu. Amathayi nawo asesimweni esibi, okusikisela ukuthi le nqola yayisetshenziswa njalo ohambweni lokuzingela lwenkosi esencane. UCarter wachaza le nqola ngokuthi, “Enye yezakhiwo ezivulekile, ezilula cishe ngenjongo yokuzingela noma yokuzivocavoca.”

Muva nje umbiko wezokwelapha onemininingwane yokuhlolwa okwenziwe ku-Tutankhamun namalungu omndeni wakhe ushicilelwe ku-Journal of the American Medical Association. Isihloko esithi, “Uzalo Nezifo Emkhayeni Wenkosi uTutankhamun” sichaza indlela uDkt. Hawass nethimba lakhe abadalula ngayo amalungu omndeni kaTutankahmun osekunezinkulumo-mpikiswano, kanye nembangela yokufa kwakhe. Ithimba labacwaningi laseHamburg's Bernhard Noct Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNI) nokho liziphikisile izinsolo zokuthi u-King Tut wabulawa umalaleveva, futhi esikhundleni salokho bakholwa ukuthi isifo se-sickle-cell sambulala. Nakuba ezinye zezimpawu phakathi kukamalaleveva nesifo se-sickle-cell zifana, u-Hawass nethimba lakhe, basekela lokho abakutholile futhi baqinisekisa ukuthi uTutankhamun wabulawa izinkinga zikamalaleveva nesifo sika-Kohler, isifo esithinta ukutholakala kwegazi emathanjeni.

Phakathi nokuhlolwa kwe-CT nokuhlolwa kwe-DNA kwakamuva, u-Hawass nethimba lakhe lezokwelapha bathola ukuthi iNkosi uTutankhamun ibe nengozi emahoreni ambalwa ngaphambi kokuba ishone, okwabangela ukuphuka komlenze wesobunxele wenkosi. Lokhu kwenza ukusetshenziswa kwenqola kaTutankhamun embukisweni waseNew York kuthakazelise nakakhulu njengoba inkosi esencane kungenzeka ukuthi yawa kuyo kanye le nqola. U-Hawass wanezela, “Njengoba sithola okwengeziwe ngokufa kukaTutankhamun, singathola ukuthi le nqola iwucezu olubalulekile lwendida ebesilokhu sisebenzela ukuyixazulula amashumi eminyaka.”