Posted on 12/21/2008 1:39:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv
"We can now say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten," Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Discovery News. The finding offers evidence against another leading theory that King Tut was sired by the minor king Smenkhkare. Hawass discovered the missing part of a broken limestone block a few months ago in a storeroom at el Ashmunein, a village on the west bank of the Nile some 150 miles south of Cairo. Once reassembled, the slab has become "an accurate piece of evidence that proves Tut lived in el Amarna with Akhenaten and he married his wife, Ankhesenamun," while living in el Amarna, Hawass said. The text also suggests that the young Tutankhamun married his father's daughter -- his half sister. "The block shows the young Tutankhamun and his wife, Ankhesenamun, seated together. The text identifies Tutankhamun as the 'king's son of his body, Tutankhaten,' and his wife as the 'king's daughter of his body, Ankhesenaten,'" Hawass said. "We know that the only king to whom the text could refer as the father of both children is Akhenaten, himself. We know from other sources that Ankhesenamun was the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Now, because of this block, we can say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten as well," Hawass said. Found among other sandstone slabs in the storeroom of El Ashmunein's archaeological site, the block was used in the construction of the temple of Thoth during the reign of Ramesses II, who ruled around 1279-1213 B.C.
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King Tut Gets Paternity Test[O]n Dec. 12 scientists from the Waseda and Nagoya universities in Japan will join experts from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and Cairo's Ain Shams University and remove hair, bone or nail samples from King Tut's mummified body... Mapping out the lineage of the kingdom is the final goal of the research. Scientists will try to check whether King Tut's DNA matches that of Amenhotep III, credited by some historians to be his father. But many Egyptologists have questioned the patriarchal link, and are convinced that King Tut was the son of Akhetaten, the revolutionary pharaoh who overthrew the pantheon of the gods. A recent study of Tut's clothes by the British researcher Gillian Vogelsang Eastwood suggests that King Tut may have been cursed with a genetic disease which left him with fatty hips. That same pear-shaped trait is displayed in the statues and pictures portraying Akhetaten, and would indeed bolster suspicion that the boy king was a son of Akhetaten, rather than his son-in-law... She believes that the investigation should also explore tomb KV.55 in the Valley of the Kings, which contains a mummy said to be either that of Akhenaten or the elusive "Smenkhare," the pharaoh who succeeded Akhenaten and who was possibly Tut's brother.
by Rossella Lorenzi
November 11, 2000
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Who's your ... mummy?
Ancestor of Hillary Clinton.
Fun E.
Here you are making jokes, Martin, when we could be wiped out by a giant solar flare!!!
And King Tut Tut’s daddy was Robert F. Kennedy. Big deal!
He’s way ahead of most of the people in Philadelphia.
Too bad he didn't overthrow the pantheon of priests as well.
Might have made for CHANGE we could all believe in.
“Disco Tut, (how’d you get so funky?)
“Disco Tut, (did you do the Monkey?)
“Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia,
“King Tut!”
Anyway, not too hard to believe that Tutankhamun was the offspring of Akhenaten, who was born Amenhotep IV but became the first pharaoh to worship a single god, Aten, embodied by the sun. Since this would have put the priestly class out of business, they engineered his downfall. And Tut himself only lived to eighteen, wonder why.
Velikovsky was right on that score, then.
Now...who was his mother?
I read a book that suggested it was Marfan Syndrome, and it may have run in the family.
He caused his own downfall by leaving the capital to found Tel El Amarna.
He shirked his duties. It was Ai that wanted to leave Amarna, and it was Ai that took over after Tut’s death, and married tut’s widow, too.
Thanks for an interesting post. I have tickets to the Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art in a few weeks. If anybody here has seen it I’d appreciate your comments and insight.
It’s generally been said that his mother was Kia, one of Akkie’s wives/concubines/side action babes.
My guess is, the priests wanted someone besides him on the throne, that he was too goofy, and golly, it turned out the priests were correct. :’) The Aten, his sun-disk deity, was something that ran in the family (it goes back to Old Kingdom times, and may have been Thutmose IV’s own favorite), and I wonder if the whole scenario has more in common with the House of Tudor than with most other parallels which have been drawn.
I’ve seen it in Chicago (assuming it’s the same exhibition) and you’ll want to go on a relatively quiet day (i.e., sometime in the middle of its run, rather than early or late).
Yo mummy is yo daddy.
It is so nice, in either case, to know that Royal families can be screwed up as much as us common folks.
EPIPHANY
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