Posted on 07/04/2007 4:21:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Egypt will run DNA tests on an unidentified mummy to determine whether it is the pharaoh Tuthmosis I, who ruled over a period of military expansion and extensive construction, state news agency MENA said on Tuesday. Egypt's chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass said the findings would be compared with DNA from mummies of known members of Tuthmosis's family, including Queen Hatshepsut, whose mummy was identified last week, and Kings Tuthmosis II and III, according to MENA. Hawass said on Wednesday that he had recently concluded that a mummy once assumed to be that of Tuthmosis I was not in fact his, but belonged to a much younger man who died from an arrow wound. According to MENA, Hawass said the conclusion had prompted a new search for Tuthmosis's mummy. Tuthmosis, who took the throne somewhere around 1506 BC, led a series of succesful military expeditions, expanding Egypt's territory into Nubia and the Levant. After his death, he was succeeded by Tuthmosis II, his son from a minor wife, who chose to marry his royal half -- sister, the famous Queen Hatshepsut, to cement his claim to the throne.
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Interesting. I thought Hawass just said no to DNA tests.
Wonder what their haplotype is!
LOL! I sponsored my brother to test his DNA. R1b1
Yeah, seems like it was only yesterday.
Pharaoh Hatshepsut Died in PainObese, plagued with decayed teeth and perhaps a skin disease, Queen Hatshepsut might have spent her last days in pain... Bald in front but with long hair in back, the mummy shows an overweight woman just over 5 feet tall, who died at about 50... The daughter of Pharaoh Tuthmosis I and wife of Tuthmosis II, her half-brother, Hatshepsut reigned from 1498 to 1483 B.C. as the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty... When her husband-brother died, Hatshepsut became regent for the boy-king Tuthmosis III, the child of Tuthmosis II and a concubine... Examination of the mummy's mouth and her missing molar, which led to her identification as Hatshepsut, revealed very poor dental hygiene... Obesity and poor oral hygiene suggested to Selim and colleagues that she might have suffered from diabetes... One thing, however, is certain: Hatshepsut had cancer, cancer that had metastasized.
by Rossella Lorenzi
Discovery News
July 2, 2007
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