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  • King Tut's Father ID'd in Stone Inscription

    12/21/2008 1:39:52 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 35 replies · 1,286+ views
    Discovery News ^ | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | Rossella Lorenzi
    "We can now say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten," Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Discovery News. The finding offers evidence against another leading theory that King Tut was sired by the minor king Smenkhkare. Hawass discovered the missing part of a broken limestone block a few months ago in a storeroom at el Ashmunein, a village on the west bank of the Nile some 150 miles south of Cairo. Once reassembled, the slab has become "an accurate piece of evidence that proves Tut lived in el Amarna with Akhenaten and he married his...