King Tut Gets Paternity Test[O]n Dec. 12 scientists from the Waseda and Nagoya universities in Japan will join experts from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and Cairo's Ain Shams University and remove hair, bone or nail samples from King Tut's mummified body... Mapping out the lineage of the kingdom is the final goal of the research. Scientists will try to check whether King Tut's DNA matches that of Amenhotep III, credited by some historians to be his father. But many Egyptologists have questioned the patriarchal link, and are convinced that King Tut was the son of Akhetaten, the revolutionary pharaoh who overthrew the pantheon of the gods. A recent study of Tut's clothes by the British researcher Gillian Vogelsang Eastwood suggests that King Tut may have been cursed with a genetic disease which left him with fatty hips. That same pear-shaped trait is displayed in the statues and pictures portraying Akhetaten, and would indeed bolster suspicion that the boy king was a son of Akhetaten, rather than his son-in-law... She believes that the investigation should also explore tomb KV.55 in the Valley of the Kings, which contains a mummy said to be either that of Akhenaten or the elusive "Smenkhare," the pharaoh who succeeded Akhenaten and who was possibly Tut's brother.
by Rossella Lorenzi
November 11, 2000
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Who's your ... mummy?
He’s way ahead of most of the people in Philadelphia.
Velikovsky was right on that score, then.
Now...who was his mother?