Genetic Genealogy is Nothing New
02/17/2010
A DNA study of famed Egyptian pharaoh King Tutankhamun has been published in this week's edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association. Among other findings, it reports that the young king's parents were siblings, as was common among Egyptian dynasties.
The most thorough medical survey yet on a mummy of his age, it also describes a boy who died at 19 with a cleft palate, a club foot a broken leg, and malaria. These conditions also offer an explanation for there being over one hundred canes and walking sticks in his tomb.
A brief article may be found online at Yahoo News. An abstract of the article is online at the JAMA web site.