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Egypt to test Tut's kids' DNA
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:54 pm
by Minimalist
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/egypt_tutank ... 6a6OBFeQoB
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian scientists are doing DNA tests on stillborn children found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the hope of identifying their mother and grandmother, who may be the powerful queen Nefertiti, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Wednesday.
Zahi never passes up a chance to strut for the cameras.
Re: Egypt to test Tut's kids' DNA
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:21 pm
by john
Minimalist wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/egypt_tutank ... 6a6OBFeQoB
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian scientists are doing DNA tests on stillborn children found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the hope of identifying their mother and grandmother, who may be the powerful queen Nefertiti, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Wednesday.
Zahi never passes up a chance to strut for the cameras.
Minimalist -
Want to give me odds
On Zahi's hope that
He's a descendant of the big Tut?
hoka hey
john
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:41 pm
by Minimalist
I think Zahi would rather be descended from Rameses II or one of the other important kings.
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:10 pm
by MichelleH
Minimalist wrote:I think Zahi would rather be descended from Rameses II or one of the other important kings.
Maybe a Ptolemy like Cleopatra....
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:52 am
by Minimalist
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 648589.ece
Follow up.
Two foetuses found buried with Tutankhamun may have been his twin daughters, an expert has claimed.
Professor Robert Connolly, an anatomist who is working with Egyptian authorities to analyse the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh, says that preliminary tests on the mummified remains of the two still-born babies indicate that Tutankhamun may have fathered them both. He will present the new findings at the Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt Conference at the University of Manchester today.
Maybe one of our British cousins could run over to Manchester and listen in?
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:45 am
by Kleopatra
MichelleH wrote:Minimalist wrote:I think Zahi would rather be descended from Rameses II or one of the other important kings.
Maybe a Ptolemy like Cleopatra....
Hey! Are you referring to
me!?
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:11 am
by Ishtar
Welcome Kleopatra!
It's always good to have another woman on here - and I see you're an Egypt specialist too. So that's an added bonus!
Look forward to some interesting discussions.
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:26 am
by Grumpage
Ish: How do you know that Kleopatra is a woman?
What do you think I am? Don't answer that.
Kleopatra: Welcome Oh Sexless One.
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:32 am
by Ishtar
Grumpage wrote:Ish:
What do you think I am? Don't answer that.
.
I think you're f***ing brilliant, as matter of fact.
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 8:16 am
by Minimalist
And a Southern Belle, too.
I was just in SC last month...