Half of European men share King Tut's DNA

Reuters ^ | Mon Aug 1, 2011 | Alice Baghdjian

[annie laurie]

Up to 70 percent of British men and half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland said.

Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh, who ascended the throne at the age of nine, his father Akhenaten and grandfather Amenhotep III, based on a film that was made for the Discovery Channel.

The results showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 percent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor.

Among modern-day Egyptians this haplogroup contingent is below 1 percent, according to iGENEA.

Around 70 percent of Spanish and 60 percent of French men also belong to the genetic group of the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.

[SunkenCiv]

The UN will merely conclude that Tut was genetically racist. Oh, and that the DNA results are wrong, because he was really black African.

[SunkenCiv]

According to the file that survived, Himmler personally investigated Hitler’s ancestry three times. :’)

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I expect that the genetic traits of Tut’s family were spread first through the Hellenistic Kingdoms, and then throughout the Roman Empire during the period between Alexander the Great and the Arab conquest in the seventh century AD. A thousand years is plenty of time to spread the genes.

[rmlew]

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.

[rmlew]

And a high percentage of Ukranians have DNA from Attila the Hun.
Atilla was named after the Itil River, ie the Volga in Russia. Atilla's capitol was in modern Hungary on the Tisa River. While some Ukranians may be descended from Huns, these were not the only Turkic, or even Oghur Turkic peoples to pass through or settle Ukraine. The first Bulghar Kingdom was in part of Ukraine, before their more sucessful cousins the Khazars took it.
BTW, R1A1 is Cimmeran and Scythian. The Huns were much later.

[Jonty30]

It sounds like I really don’t want to piss off a Ukranian.

[justa-hairyape]

That was interesting and an entire new aspect to what I have read in the typical stories and legends. If true however there must be a DNA link between the Scottish/Irish and the Israelis ? Or was the Judah line almost nearly wiped out from the Levant after the Babylonian invasion ? And thus there would be divergent DNA with the lost 10 tribes (assuming they are now the dominant DNA within Israel).

[ApplegateRanch]

Can't answer those; I just found it interesting, but am not qualified to evaluate it.

OTOH, the “lost 10” have little to do with Judah or Babylon. They were taken about 100 years earlier by the Assyrians, who then moved other (to the Assyrians) troublemakers into Samaria, from other areas of the empire.

By the time of Ezra & Nehemiah's Temple reconstruction, let alone 400+ years later when Jesus met the woman at the well, a very good part of the Samaritan populace was no longer Hebrew.

Same later for Judah.

In both cases, "...many claim to be Jews, but are of the Synagogue of Satan, and do lie.”

[agrarianlady]

I expect that the genetic traits of Tut’s family were spread first through the Hellenistic Kingdoms, and then throughout the Roman Empire during the period between Alexander the Great and the Arab conquest in the seventh century AD. A thousand years is plenty of time to spread the genes.

My thoughts exactly. The British must be a lot Roman, just based on the scope of the Roman empire. Also, one knows from the nose.

[null and void]

Red Dwarf reference.

[Bellflower]

Could this tie in with the legend of Scota an Egyptian princess who is claimed to be where the name Scotland is derived from and married to an Israelite.

They need to do a careful study of this Egyptian genetic strain and follow it where it might lead and to where it extends.

http://www.ufodigest.com/scotland.html

[gleeaikin]

One theory that might explain it is that first of all the 18th Dynasty blood line died out and was not continued in the kingship line. However, the statement that Iknaton and others of Tuts ancestors had this haplogroup could indicate that when Iknaton’s monotheistic city and god were put down, many of the related peoples fled to Europe or whatever areas seem to have a high incidence of that haplogroup.

[SunkenCiv]

2018 ping.