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Historians Say King Tut's Ills Won't Kill Fascination
CHICAGO (AP) -- It turns out Egypt's beloved boy-king wasn't so golden after all. He wasn't much of a wild and crazy guy, either.

But will research showing King Tut was actually a hobbled, weak teen with a cleft palate and club foot kill enthusiasm for a mummy that has fascinated the world for nearly a century?

Historians say not likely. But the revelations hardly fit the popular culture depiction of a handsome young pharaoh or a dancing "how'd-you-get-so-funky" phenom a la comedian Steve Martin.

Research that appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association shows that Tut had a genetic bone disease and malaria. He died about 3,300 years ago at age 19.

Historians say the new evidence will likely only intensify public interest the boy king.

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