They discovered that the damage to Tut's chest was caused by Howard Carter, and thehole inTut's skull was made when embalmers were preparing the body for burial.
Next, the embalmer makes another incision, this time under your ribcage, and inserts a metal suction tool called a trochar attached to a pump system into your chest cavity.
Fletcher described the find as " like a time machine, really… It's allowed us to not quite see over the shoulders of the ancient embalmers, but probably as close as we'll ever get."
I attended the memorial. It was open casket and I found myself searching her face. The embalmers hadn't gotten her lips right—the gracious smile she'd worn like an iron mask had been stripped away.
You find it hard to watch the embalmer stuff your nose and throat with cotton to prevent any smells or fluids from leaking out, but even worse is watching them dry out your eyeballs!