Charleston man who dons pharaoh garb gets DNA results linking him to Ramesses III

The Post and Courier ^ | 23 Mar 19 | Robert Behre

[SkyPilot]

Robert “King David” Ross of Charleston wears his Egyptian headress while reading the 23andMe letter informing him of his familial link to Pharoah Ramsesses III

Robert Ross retired as a management analyst with the U.S. General Accounting Office in Chicago, moved back to Charleston and currently works as a sexton at Morris Street Baptist Church.

But most people probably recognize him for the distinctive black-and-gold Pharaoh headdress he often wears around town to express his passion for ancient Egypt.

In other words, he’s been wearing it long before a 23andMe letter arrived in January analyzing his DNA — a letter that would move him to tears and confirm his many years of work.

“You share an ancient paternal lineage with Pharaoh Ramesses III,” it read. “You and Ramesses III share an ancient paternal-line ancestor who probably lived in north Africa or western Asia.”

Ross was ecstatic.

“When I first read it, I was so happy, and I was just so glad,” he said. “Then I thought, ‘No wonder I’m re-enacting and doing certain things that’s sort of unexplainable. It’s all part of the gene!’”

Ross said his passion for ancient Africa began to stir several decades ago, when he visited the King Tutankhamun exhibition in Chicago.

Until then, his impression of Egypt was that it was racially and culturally linked more to Europe than Africa, a perception he said was created by Hollywood stars in movies such as “The Ten Commandments.”

But when Ross saw King Tut’s gold death mask, he said, “It was like seeing myself. Something just came over me, and I started crying.”

[SkyPilot]

True.

[Political Junkie Too]

This sounds like the beginning of a mummy reincarnation movie.

-PJ

[SunkenCiv]

Ross said his passion for ancient Africa began to stir several decades ago, when he visited the King Tutankhamun exhibition in Chicago... saw King Tut’s gold death mask, he said, "It was like seeing myself. Something just came over me, and I started crying."

• Half of European men share King Tut's DNA
• King Tut and half of European men share DNA

[SunkenCiv]

the rest of the Ramses III keyword, chrono sort:

• CT Scan Shows Pharoah Ramesses III Was Murdered by Multiple Assassins [2016]
• 1177 BCE, the year a perfect storm destroyed civilization [2015]
• Climate Change Not a Cause of Bronze Age Collapse [2014]
• Greek Bronze Age ended 100 years earlier than thought, new evidence suggests [2014]
• The Greek Age of Bronze -- Middle Helmets [2014]
• Pollen Study Points to Drought as Culprit in Bronze Age Mystery (Global Warming in Ancient Times) [2013]
• A Mummy Murder Mystery Is Solved: King's Throat Was Slit [2012]
• Study revisits mystery of Egyptian King Ramesses III's killing [2012]
• The Sea Peoples, from Cuneiform Tablets to Carbon Dating [2012]
• Sea Peoples invade: 1192-1190 BC [2011]
• "Early Bronze Age battle site found on German river bank" [2011]
• Early Bronze Age battle site found on German river bank [2011]
• Pharaonic inscription found in Saudi Arabia [2010]
• Archaeological mystery solved (Sea-Peoples and the Song of Deborah) [2010]
• "The Catastrophe" What the End of Bronze-Age Civilization Means for Modern Times [2009]
• "Screaming Mummy" Is Murderous Son of Ramses III? [2008]
• The Sea Peoples [2006]
• Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings etc) [2005]

[Oatka]

Years ago I saw a TV show where people who claimed to have lived before attended a party in their original dress. When interviewed, all of them claimed to be related to some king or other royalty. None ever claimed to have been a serf/peon/helot in their former life.

I always wonder where, under deep hypnosis (Bridie Murphy) where people claimed to have lived in olden times, if the hypnotist ever asked what the price of food, or a donkey was in their time - or write in their language, if literate (a stretch) or name the current ruler. I bet that would trip up a lot of ‘em.