[madison10]

I think it is the Egyptian King Tut who shows the apparent and disgusting results of inbreeding

[Verginius Rufus]

King Tut looks normal enough in the likeness found in his tomb. It was his predecessor Akhenaton who is strangely deformed in appearance--and had his artists portray him like he looked rather than making him look better.

The talk I mentioned earlier had to do with ordinary Egyptians at a later period (either Ptolemaic or Roman, don't recall)--I don't know how soon the common people began to imitate the pharaohs in this regard.

Athens allowed half-sibling marriages. The Roman emperor Claudius married his niece and Romans at the time professed to be shocked.