Photos by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer -- Genetic investigation continues to uncover more about King Tut, Egypt’s most famous pharaoh. Marc Gabolde, the director of the archaeological expedition of Universite Paul Valery-Montpellier III, told his Harvard audience that he is convinced that Tut’s mother was his father’s first cousin, Nefertiti.
King Tut (King Tut)
Now when he was a young man,
He never thought he'd see
People stand in line to see the boy king.
I liked the DNA evaluation that TUT was Irish! A later article said he was related to half of the men in Europe. That kinda took the fun out of it.
If three generations of first-cousin marriages look like a brother-sister marriage, I wonder what that says about maybe 20 generations of first-cousin marriages among most Muslims?
Quiet ! Not the camel. Tut was before the invention of Islam.
Why is he considered the most famous pharaoh,he left behind the most fabulous stuff?
He’s my favorite honky.
Bonnie Grey Jumping "King Tut" over auto, cheyenne frontier day 1925,
Family resemblance? Akhenaten on the right and a reconstruction of Tutankhamun on the left. Akhenaten is a fascinating figure, a reformer who attempted to swing his people to monotheism and away from a corrupt and powerful priesthood. He died prematurely and his reforms dissipated after his death.
From the Great Hymn to Aten, attributed to Akhenaten:
"...How manifold are thy works,
They are hidden from before us
O Sole God, whose powers no other possesseth.
Thou didst create the earth according to thy heart
While thou wast alone
Man, all cattle, large and small
All that are upon the earth
That go about on their feet
All That are on high
That fly with their wings
The foreign countries, Syria and Kush,
The land of Egypt
Thou settest every man into his place
Thou suppliest their necessities "
Is it just me or is Nefertiti a really fun name?
