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To: Yehuda; Clemenza; rmlew
You can get DNA from a PICTURE?

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.

43 posted on 08/02/2011 9:03:59 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative; camle; Alkhin; Professional Engineer; katana; Mr. Silverback; MadIvan; ...
Yehuda ~ You can get DNA from a PICTURE?

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?

44 posted on 08/02/2011 9:31:22 AM PDT by null and void (Day 922. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
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To: Paleo Conservative

“The gene in question are located on the Y-chromosome, so the other males in the royal family shared it too.”

How SEXIST!

:-)


49 posted on 08/02/2011 9:49:30 AM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: Paleo Conservative
I have another thought. The 18th dynasty King Tutankhamun was a member of the 18th Dynasty, which kicked out the foreign Hyksos rulers and workers. The Hyksos included not only Canaanites and Israelites, but also Hurrians and Indo-Europeans like the Hitittes. Pharaoh Ahmose I, founder of the 18th Dynasty, probably was part Hyksos. He was also probably the bad pharaoh of Exodus.
64 posted on 08/02/2011 7:40:49 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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