Was mummy King Tut a daddy? – DNA tests for tomb foetuses
DNA tests are to be conducted on the mummified remains of two stillborn children found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, Egyptian officials say.
Egypt's chief archaeologist hopes the tests will confirm whether they were the offspring of the boy pharaoh.
DNA tests are to be conducted on the mummified remains of two stillborn children found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, Egyptian officials say.
Egypt's chief archaeologist hopes the tests will confirm whether they were the offspring of the boy pharaoh.
It is also hoped the tests will clarify whether the children's grandmother was the famously-beautiful queen Nefertiti.
They were found in the Luxor tomb of the boy king, who died over 3,000 years ago, by explorer Howard Carter in 1922.
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