Half of European men share King Tut's DNA (2011)

reuters.com/ ^ | August 1, 2011 | By Alice Baghdjian

[dennisw]

Up to 70 percent of British men and half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland said.

Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy center, iGENEA, reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh, who ascended the throne at the age of nine, his father Akhenaten and grandfather Amenhotep III, based on a film that was made for the Discovery Channel.

The results showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 percent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor.

Among modern-day Egyptians this haplogroup contingent is below 1 percent, according to iGENEA. "It was very interesting to discover that he belonged to a genetic group in Europe -- there were many possible groups in Egypt that the DNA could have belonged to," said Roman Scholz, director of the iGENEA Center.

Around 70 percent of Spanish and 60 percent of French men also belong to the genetic group of the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. "We think the common ancestor lived in the Caucasus about 9,500 years ago," Scholz told Reuters.

It is estimated that the earliest migration of haplogroup R1b1a2 into Europe began with the spread of agriculture in 7,000 BC, according to iGENEA. However, the geneticists were not sure how Tutankhamun's paternal lineage came to Egypt from its region of origin.

[mewzilla]

I was around when that exhibition was touring.

The nation went nuts for Tut.

I still have the souvenir a family member who saw it brought back for me.

The 70s didn’t totally suck...

[Red Badger]

For some odd reason, Egyptian stuff has always fascinated people all the way back to Biblical times..............

[x]

I don’t know about the 1% figure, but King Tut lived over 3000 years ago and that’s a lot of generations. Ancient Egyptians had more interactions with people in the Levant. Modern Egyptians have more descent from Sub-Saharan Africa. Massacres aren’t necessary to explain the change. The history of the Coptic Christians also suggests that the change wasn’t brought about by exterminating the earlier inhabitants.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh heh...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! I anticipate a slow GGG week, mainly because everything about me this week seems a little slow, so, despite this being a duplicate of sorts, *ping*!

Plus, this will be of great interest because in modern times he's become the best known pharaoh, annnnd, a number of FReepers are from Arizona. It's a thinker.

Selections from the keywords KingTut and Tutankhamun, sorted and stuff:

• Half of European men share King Tut's DNA [08/01/2011]
• King Tut and half of European men share DNA [08/04/2011]
• Ancient and Modern Europeans Have Surprising Genetic Connection [11/08/2014]

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• Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun's wet nurse might have been his sister [12/22/2015]
• King Tut died of blood disorder: German researchers [ sickle cell disease ] [06/25/2010]
• King Tut's Leftover Bandages Yield New Clues [05/20/2010]
• Egypt reveals Tutankhamun's lineage, cause of death [02/17/2010]
• Frail Boy-King Tut Died From Malaria, Broken Leg [02/16/2010]
• DNA studies show a frail King Tut succumbed to malaria and a broken leg [02/16/2010]
• Tutankhamun Fetuses To Get Paternity Test [08/07/2008]

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• A Sculpture Depicting King Tut as a Black Man Is Sparking International Outrage [06/01/2023]
• Tutankhamun's 'Delicate' Face Reconstructed Digitally for First Time {3,000 Years) [06/01/2023]
• Epilepsy, Tutankhamun and Monotheism: A theory on inherited disease in the Egyptian New Kingdom [08/28/2018]
• The REAL face of King Tut: Pharaoh had girlish hips, a club foot and buck teeth according to [10/20/2014]
• Tutankhamun was not black: Egypt antiquities chief [09/26/2007]
• Demonstrators say King Tut exhibit depicts wrong skin color [12/18/2005]
• King Tut's skin color a topic of controversy [06/16/2005]
• King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists [06/08/2005]

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• King Tut's Father ID'd in Stone Inscription [12/21/2008]
• Mystery of Tut's Father: New Clues on Unidentified Mummy [07/10/2007]
• Tut's gem hints at space impact [07/20/2006]
• King Tut liked Red Wine Best [10/30/2005]
• King Tut Drank Red Wine, Researcher Says [10/26/2005]
• BOOK FEATURE: The man who really found Tutankhamen (British Corporal Spy) [03/31/2005]

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• King Tut Was Killed In A Gruesome Chariot Accident, Says Science [11/08/2013]
• Mummy-fried! Tutankhamun's body spontaneously combusted INSIDE his coffin [11/03/2013]
• King Tut suffered 'massive' chest injury, new research reveals [11/12/2010]
• King Tut Died From Broken Leg, Not Murder, Scientists Conclude [12/04/2006]
• King Tut slain by sword in the knee [02/04/2006]
• Tutankhamun died of gangrene [05/10/2005]

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• King Tut's Mummified Erect Penis May Point to Ancient Religious Struggle [01/06/2014]

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• A new origin story for King Tut's meteorite dagger [05/20/2022]
• King Tut's Dagger Made of Extraterrestial Material [06/29/2016]
• Dagger in King Tut's tomb was made with iron from a meteorite [06/01/2016]
• King Tut's Blade Made of Meteorite [06/01/2016]

[fireman15]

I have been trying to convince Mrs Woodbutcher for two years now about moving/retiring to Italy. Even places in Tuscany are becoming affordable.

We have been watching Italy as well and even practicing Italian. It is a bargain there at the moment. Right now, we live in a very expensive part of the country with a bunch of lefties and “new arrivals” who are destroying the state.

I was in the lumber industry for almost ten years before I was hired by a fire department and started living the easy life of a government employee.

[fireman15]

The history of the Coptic Christians also suggests that the change wasn't brought about by exterminating the earlier inhabitants.

Typically, when a group has almost no genetic relationship to the previous group that occupied the area... something very unpleasant took place at some point, whether or not the events made it into the history books.

I know that Coptic Christians are Egypt's largest minority, and I know that they claim a close relationship to ancient Egyptians. But I have no idea if there has been any genetic testing to confirm this. The article that we are discussing makes no mention of this which would be surprising if the data existed.

[Wuli]

The Copts in Egypt are probably the closest to ancient Egyptians, while the rest are Arabs whose ancestors arrived in Egypt with the Arab/Muslim conquest in 641 A.D.

[woodbutcher1963]

We have been following a few YouTubers that promote villas in Italy. Some are actual licensed real estate agents that moved there from Great Britain.

Here is one:

https://ahomeinitaly.com/

He sells houses in Abruzzo. He is from the UK. A lot of them need work and are in all these small villages.

There is another guy who calls his channel One take Italian Property Tours. He is from UK too.
He tends to promote much more expensive properties in Tuscany , Umbria and occasionally up north. Some of them are incredibly beautiful. Places that at one point cost well over 1MM EU.

There is another women who does videos of houses in Molise and Piedmont. She is from South America originally. I don’t recall her channel name.

Just recently I started getting videos on my feed from Spain. Houses/villas out in the central dry area. It looks like the places they probably filmed the Spaghetti Westerns.
Similar looking landscape to the SW US. Not quite as arid though.
Beautiful brand new appearing up to date villas with pools for $249K-$289K

[madison10]

Not my husband. His DNA is Viking.😉

[blam]

The latset Cleopatra movie on Netflick has Cleopatra as a black woman.
Everyone in the world knows that Cleopatra was Greek descended.