Epilepsy, Tutankhamun and Monotheism: A theory on inherited disease in the Egyptian New Kingdom

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In before the first Steve Martin joke.

This is a much better theory: Tutankhamun died young because he was crown prince of pharaoh that was killed during the Passover that caused pharaoh to release the Hebrews from slavery, as recorded in Exodus.

He self-identified as Queen of Egypt.

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Nope, by the time Tut was born, Moses had been dead for centuries.

The Assyrian Conquest by Immanuel Velikovsky

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“Henry Breasted” in the same breath as Tut’s Gynocomastia.

You can’t make this stuff up.

When he was a small girl, he never thought he'd see, people stand in line to see the Boy Queen.

We'd better not go down the road of Henry Breasted's home life. ;^) Some years back some joker wrote up his claim that the discoverer of Knossos, Sir Arthur Evans, had gone into overseas archaeology to hide his proclivities. Of course, he used to have fun parties for the kids in the neighborhood in his English manor.

This is a much better theory: Tutankhamun died young because he was crown prince of pharaoh that was killed during the Passover that caused pharaoh to release the Hebrews from slavery, as recorded in Exodus.

Probably not. Most biblical scholars place the Exodus 200+ years earlier than Tutankhamun's father Akhenaten's reign.

Yikes.

:^) There’s a vignette in the “In Search of the Trojan War” where Michael Wood visits the garden (all that’s left of Evans’ house in Britain) with an elderly man who remembered those parties, and who had absolutely nothing bad to say about Sir Arthur. It’s up near the top of my fave documentaries (other than the opening theme).

http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=In_Search_of_the_Trojan_War

http://www.google.com/search?q=Michael+wood+trojan+war+site:youtube.com

Thanks. I will check it out!

Marfan's Syndrome

"The most recently suggested possibility for Akhenaten's supposed pathology is a genetic disorder known as Marfan's Syndrome. This is a more likely possibility than Froehlich's Syndrome, as it does not affect intelligence or fertility (Burridge, A., 1995), (Redford, D., 1994).
Marfan's Syndrome was first described by a French doctor named Antione B. Marfan, who reported that some of his patients had especially long fingers (he called this arachnodactyly, or spider-fingers), skeletal abnormalities (including arms that were disproportionately long), and high, arched pallets. He also noticed spine defects (Wieczorek, Riegel, & Quattro, 1996).
Antione noted that these traits seemed to be inherited, and it is now certain that Marfan's Syndrome is a hereditary disease, and the gene for it is autosomal dominant (Wieczorek, Riegel, & Quattro, 1996)."

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Wood does a good job, and when he’s on a soapbox it is easy to spot and more or less ignore.

Thanks blam!

Ron Wyatt put together the most plausible explanation I have found. Being an intelligence professional, I started my research question with: If the Exodus account is to be believed, how is it possible that the Egyptian empire was destroyed economically, militarily, spiritually, and sociologically; without leaving a ripple effect on world history?

Ron Wyatt is the only theologian/archaeologist that has answered that question.

I appreciate your concern for the dynastic timeline. But your understanding does not take into account of the massive cover-up that had to have taken place in order for Egypt to survive within its national boundaries.