Who killed Ramses III? How scientists found murder in an Egyptian mummy | ASSASSINS
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as posted by the channelAncient Egypt’s 3000-year-old mystery is one of history’s coldest cases.
Ramses III was the last of Egypt’s Great Pharaohs; a saviour of the empire, a military genius, a god-king.
But for over 3000 years, his passing remained a mystery. Then, in 2012, scientists uncovered the truth.
They found a wound nobody had noticed before the type of wound that had one likely explanationPharaoh Ramses III had been assassinated. Subscribe
Host: Aslan Pahari
Producer: Hannah Jose
Audio Engineer: John Jacobs
Video Producer: Tejas Bhat
Special thanks: Michael Osmond for archives research
Executive Producers: Joel Werner, Eric George, Jessica Radburn
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