Posted on 02/15/2014 1:33:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Incest was a ‘normal’ part of Pharoah dynasties. It resulted in birth defects. King Tut had problems with his feet as did his preemie daughters. It was common for Pharoahs to have their sisters as their Queens. Lots of info is available online about that.
HOWEVER, that doesn’t mean that the kiss shared between father and baby daughter was a wrong kind of kiss. Some families do kiss like that..with big puckers on their lips. It’s not necessarily incestuous.
Interesting, because there are a lot of ramifications if they change the “standard” chronology of Egyptian dynasties. The Egyptian chronology is the longest is the area, so all the other civilizations nearby, Greek, Assyrian, Hittite, etc, are dated in reference to the contemporary Egyptian dynasties.
“King Tut was known to be the son of the ‘heretic’ pharaoh Akhenaten, who tried to reform the Egyptian religion during his rule. But the identity of his mother had been shrouded in mystery - until now.
The fact that his mother and father were brother and sister may seem bizarre today but incest was rife among the boy king’s family because pharaohs were believed to be descended from the gods.
Therefore it was an acceptable way of retaining the sacred bloodline. King Tut’s own wife Ankhesenpaaten, was his half-sister as they shared the same father. They were married when he was just ten.
But Dr Hawass’ team found generations of inbreeding took their toll on King Tut - the last of his great dynasty.
The bone disease he suffered runs in families and is more likely to be passed down if two first-degree relatives marry and have children, the study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows.”
So, Akhenaton was known to “keep it in the family”.
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