Posted on 08/01/2011 10:50:56 PM PDT by annie laurie
Up to 70 percent of British men and half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland said.
Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh, who ascended the throne at the age of nine, his father Akhenaten and grandfather Amenhotep III, based on a film that was made for the Discovery Channel.
The results showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 percent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor.
Among modern-day Egyptians this haplogroup contingent is below 1 percent, according to iGENEA.
Around 70 percent of Spanish and 60 percent of French men also belong to the genetic group of the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.
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Wow...I now know that I’m related to Niall of the Nine Hostages as well as King Tut. I’ll sleep well tonight...
You could inherit the DNA from any of the carriers who were alive at that time not just King Tut. The reason King Tut is highlighted is that most of the mummies from the Egyptian royal families got destroyed over the years due to looting of their graves, so their DNA isn't available to test. The gene in question are located on the Y-chromosome, so the other males in the royal family shared it too.
This is analogous to the testing on the male descendants of Sally Hemmings. The hype was that it proved that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemmings. All that was proved was that any one of several male relatives of Thomas Jefferson could also have fathered those children.
LISTER: What about the photograph?
He pulls it out and examines it again.
LISTER: I'm not the groom. (pointing to another figure in the picture) He is the groom!
CAT: Hey -- she's not as stupid as we thought!
LISTER: Why do women always leave me for total smegheads? Why do they dump me for men who wear turtleneck sweaters and smoke a pipe? I mean, natural yoghurt eaters! Reliable, sensible, dependable, and lots of other words that end in "-ible." He's obsessed with house-prices, and spends half his life in antique fairs looking for bargains and drinking wine. It's never beer, is it, it's always wine! "What do you want on your cornflakes, darling?" "Oh, I'll have some wine, please!" Smeg!
He leans against a wall, bitter and angry. CAT taps him on one shoulder.
CAT: You can tell all that, just from a photograph?
Egyptians with ability and intelligence living under the Pharaohs would have had a strong incentive to emigrate. Many did, to Greece and elsewhere in the Mediterranean region, taking Egyptian civilization and technology with them.
Egyptians settled in Greece. Later on Greeks established colonies in Italy and probably helped with the rise of Roman civilization.
LOL~! I just saw that eposide yesterday on netflix!
Also, relatives of Tut from the Egyptian royal class would have fathered more than their share of kids from all the concubines and such.
Good times.
Rule 34: If it exists there is a Red Dwarf of it.
“The gene in question are located on the Y-chromosome, so the other males in the royal family shared it too.”
How SEXIST!
:-)
run by a Queeg 5000?
Jeremiah, Baruch, 2 daughters, and Jacob's Pillow go from Egypt to Gibraltar.
Spain to Ireland.
Next step was Scotland.
You Tube: Stone of Destiny (67 minutes)
Amazon: paperback of same title, by the same author as above
NOTE: poster neither fanatically believes nor denies the historical veracity of the content, but they are an intriguing presentation that is at least somewhat plausible.
“progeny” would make more sense ;-)
Ca 1965, I had a college instructor who was black, for my Western Civ class. Blacks discovered America before Columbus; traded feathers for gold with the Aztecs. Most of the "real" Egyptian Pharaohs were black. A black invented radio, ad nauseum. I didn't finish the semester, but dropped & retook it later from an actual historian.
That was my first experience with "Black Studies", even before there were such programs/departments.
I understand that rather than improving, they have actually gone downhill from there.
Excuse me now; I have to go sacrifice a chicken for dinner...and maybe I'll pick up a watermelon in town for dessert.
I agree that if he impregnated of enough women so half of Europe is decended from him, Tut would have been a ‘prodigy’ indeed—but his descendants would have been his ‘progeny’.
Indeed, 45 years later Western Civilization owes all of its greatest developments to black-lesbian atheists with speech impediments.
Every person on Earth shares Eve’s DNA
My guess is, the reason for this DNA survival is a common ancestor; one of Tut’s female ancestors came from Indo-European stock (she was a foreign princess, from what is now Iran), and they have origins in common with (most) Europeans. Europe also has one of the most turbulent histories and prehistories, with migrations, invasions, conquests, forced relocations, etcetera. It results in weird things, such as an apparent descendant of Genghis Khan is also an apparent descendent of Niall of the Nine Hostages, Attila, the Biblical Aaron, and has ancestors in common with Hitler. :’)
Has anyone looked further back...like through dad’s or mom’s DNA?
Thank you.
Vell, der Hun, Herr Schicklgruber, vast at least haff Chyoooish....
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