They did Dna testing of mummies from King Tut's family and a screen shot during the program reveals the Dna marker numbers. Many viewers have video recorders and were able to write down those numbers. The Haplogroup seems to be of R1b lineage, which is very European and even very common in the UK and USA. I suspect this is not what the Egyptian archeologists wanted to find out- google, King Tut R1b, dna, for more info-
Discovery Channel program reveals King Tut's family to be European!
by moshe 12 Replies latest social current
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glenster
Dunno. I didn't see that at Discovery. I found this:
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mrsjones5
Is there another source cuz I didn't see anything in the link that suggested Tut's family was European.
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beksbks
I heard that he had a club foot and was in a lot of pain along with multiple other terrible health problems. Probably from horrible inbreeding.
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dgp
In my humble opinion, this is not surprising. Egypt isn't that far from Europe. And you're assuming that an European went down to Egypt, not the other way around.
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chickpea
@beks.... the program showed the results of a scan indicating tut had an osteonecrosis
on his left foot, Kohler's disease, plus it was discovered he had a chronic malarial infection,
PLUS two fetal mummies were associated with tut and DNA revealed tut had fathered
a daughter with his sister/wife..... oh yeah, that dude was totally eff'ed up -
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wobble
We've always had a lot of Gyppos in Europe.
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moshe
From comment to to the linked story:
King Tut's Y-DNA Haplogroup
kaisertufail wrote:Saturday, 20 February 2010 at 08:05 am (UTC)
The latest Discovery Channel video grab shows the STR values of two samples labelled KV55 (Ahenaten, Tut's father) and AmIII (Amenhotep III, Tut's grandfather) as can be clearly seen on the screen (Time - 1':53")http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/king...rnal-line.html
The STR values for 17 markers tested are a bombshell that is likely to turn Egyptology on its head:
DYS 19 - 14 (? not clear)
DYS 385a - 11
DYS 385b - 14
DYS 389i - 13
DYS 389ii - 30
DYS 390 - 24
DYS 391 - 11
DYS 392 - 13
DYS 393 - 13
DYS 437 - 14 (? not clear)
DYS 438 - 12
DYS 439 - 10
DYS 448 - 19
DYS 456 - 15
DYS 458 - 16
DYS 635 - 23
YGATAH4 - 11When you run the Whit Athey's Haplogroup Predictor: http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/king...rnal-line.html ...you get this:
R1b with a 99.6% fit.I think that 'Daktoor' Zahi Hawass is completely confounded and has withheld the results. West Asian Pharaohs?????? Maybe he is trying to buy time to pull off a face-saving PR job. It may be noted that R1b is not known to exist in Egypt at all (Scozzari 1999, Luis 2001, Hammer).
Frequency distribution maps of R1b indicate a Mid-Eastern/Eastern Turkish connection at least for for Tut's 18th Dynasty. Of course the mtDNA is not charted out yet. A Turkish Nefertiti may be the next Pharaonic surprise!
PS: I suspect that Discovery Channel purposely showed the computer screen shots for a few seconds, something that Hawass or his team failed to notice at the time of filming the programme.
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mrsjones5
Hey if you want to claim a royal family of gimpy, club foot, inbred folks...have at it