King Tut DNA tests results to be published this month
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Dr. Zahi Hawass will soon announce the results of a DNA study conducted on the mummy of King Tutankhamen. The tests are part of a larger ambitious program aimed at confirming the identity of the royal mummies and their familiar relations.
It is believed that Tutankhamen is the son of Akhenaten, the pharaoh who tried to impose a new monotheistic type cult of the solar disk Aten, and thus grandson of Amenhotep III, whose DNA study is already concluded.
Dr. Hawass said DNA studies on all royal mummies and the nearly two dozen unidentified ones stored in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo may well require a revision on the identification of some mummies on display. His ultimate goal is to discover the mummy of Queen Nefertiti, Akhenaten’s wife, and determine whether Tutankhamen is also her son.
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I hope the DNA tests are conclusive. I’ve puzzled over late 18th Dynasty relationships. Understanding who these people were and where their ideas came from will tell us much about the foundations of civilization.