"If I'm the father..Who's the Mummy?
Posted on 08/07/2008 10:42:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Egyptian scientists are doing DNA tests on stillborn children found in Tutankhamun's tomb in the hope of confirming if they are the pharoah's offspring and confirming his family tree.
British archaeologist Howard Carter found the mummified fetuses when he discovered the tomb in 1922. Archaeologists assume they are the children of the teenage pharaoh, but this has not been confirmed. The identity of their mother is also still unknown.
Many scholars believe their mother to be Ankhesenamun, the boy king's only known wife. Ankhesenamun is the daughter of the queen Nefertiti, who was renowned for her beauty.
"For the first time we will be able to identify the family of King Tut," says Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities. "This should allow us for the first time to discover the mummy of Nefertiti."
Tutankhamun, born in 1341 BC, died less than a decade after taking the throne at the age of eight or nine.
Nefertiti had six daughters with the Pharaoh Akhenaten, who abandoned traditional gods in favor of monotheism during his rule from about 1350 to 1334 BC. The queen's mummy has never been identified.
The DNA tests and computerized tomography (CT) scans, to be performed at Cairo University, should be finished by December, Hawass said.
Egypt has been trying to check the identity of all its royal mummies using DNA and CT scans. Tutankhamun's was one of the first mummies to be examined with the technology in 2005.
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So fabulous. But does Zahi Hawass ever sleep?
Genealogy of New Kingdom Pharaohs and QueensEgyptologists have struggled with the genealogy of New Kingdom (1570-1070 B.C.) pharaohs for more than a century. Many royal mummies from this period have been identified, either by modern scholars or 20th Dynasty priests who rescued some of them from the depredations of tomb robbers. But we cannot always trust these identifications. The incomplete historical record is exacerbated by the fact that royal brothers and sisters, and even fathers and daughters, intermarried. Uncertainty abounds: How was a particular pharaoh related to his successor? Which of a pharaoh's wives was the mother of his heir? There are also many unidentified mummies. Could one of them be Hatshepsut or Akhenaten? Were the two fetuses found in Tutankhamun's tomb carried by his wife Ankhensenpaaten? Since 1993 microbiologist Scott Woodward has been analyzing DNA from the mummified remains of these pharaohs and queens, in cooperation with Nasry Iskander, chief curator of the royal mummies at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
by Scott Woodward
September 1996Egypt planning DNA test for 3,500-year-old mummy
by Salah Nasrawi
Associated Press Writer
Thursday May 29, 2008
Funny if they turned out to be McCain’s illegitimate children.
McCain?
Wouldn’t it be more relevant to ask about Edwards?
McCain?
Wouldn’t it be more relevant to ask about Edwards?
A joke isn’t funny if it needs to be explained, but here it is:
1) McCain’s age
2) during the 2000 primaries, someone (Rove?) spread a rumor that the daughter Cindy McCain adopted from Bangladesh was John McCain’s illegitimate child by his Black mistress
PC alert.
If they were born,alive or stillbirth,they were babies not “fetuses.”
But I suppose experimenting on dead fetuses is less disturbing than on dead babies.
Liberal academia is,after all,more liberal than academic.
Makes the selective genocide called abortion on demand much easier too.
Socialism 101:”If you make them less human,you make them less worthy of life.”
So they want to see if the fetuses have...dare I say it...”Tut in common?”
LOL! Splendid try for an engineer. I say let’s make him a member of the club.
Ai did it!
I’m sure that, in some still-secret place, he is having his own pyramid built.
I thought that was Maury.
Perhaps, if he has no conscience. ;’)
When I saw that, I laughed and wound up coffin up my soda.
Ai was out of town when that happened.
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