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Tutankhamun’s Blood

Why everyone from the Mormons to the Muslim Brotherhood is desperate for a piece of the Pharaoh

"The most jaw-dropping revelation was the secret that had felled the 18th Dynasty: Tutankhamun’s parents had been siblings .The union between Akhenaten and his sister “planted the seed of their son’s early death,” he wrote. “Tutankhamun’s health was compromised from the moment he was conceived.” For political reasons, the rest of the DNA analysis was cut short due the political implications of any findings that King Tut was not solely Arab in DNA. Possibilities include DNA from Caucasians and Jews.