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King Tut’s DNA is Western European
Posted by EU Times on Jun 7th, 2010
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/06/king-tuts-dna-is-western-europ...

Despite the refusal of the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, to release any DNA results which might indicate the racial ancestry of Pharaoh Tutankhamen, the leaked results reveal that King Tut’s DNA is a 99.6 percent match with Western European Y chromosomes.

The DNA test results were inadvertently revealed on a Discovery Channel TV documentary filmed with Hawass’s permission — but it seems as if the Egyptian failed to spot the giveaway part of the documentary which revealed the test results.

Hawass previously announced that he would not release the racial DNA results of Egyptian mummies — obviously because he feared the consequences of such a revelation.

On the Discovery Channel broadcast, which can be seen on the Discovery Channel website here, or if they pull it, on YouTube here, at approximately 1:53 into the video, the camera pans over a printout of DNA test results from King Tut.

Firstly, here is a brief explanation of the results visible in the video. It is a list of what is called Short Tandem Repeats (STRs).

STRs are repeated DNA sequences which are “short repeat units” whose characteristics make them especially suitable for human identification.

These STR values for 17 markers visible in the video are as follows:
DYS 19 – 14 (? not clear)
DYS 385a – 11
DYS 385b – 14
DYS 389i – 13
DYS 389ii – 30
DYS 390 – 24
DYS 391 – 11
DYS 392 – 13
DYS 393 – 13
DYS 437 – 14 (? not clear)
DYS 438 – 12
DYS 439 – 10
DYS 448 – 19
DYS 456 – 15
DYS 458 – 16
DYS 635 – 23
YGATAH4 – 11

What does this mean? Fortunately, a genius by the name of Whit Athey provides the key to this list. Mr Athey is a retired physicist whose working career was primarily at the Food and Drug Administration where he was chief of one of the medical device labs.

Mr Athey received his doctorate in physics and biochemistry at Tufts University, and undergraduate (engineering) and masters (math) degrees at Auburn University. For several years during the 1980s, he also taught one course each semester in the electrical engineering department of the University of Maryland. Besides his interest in genetic genealogy, he is an amateur astronomer and has his own small observatory near his home in Brookeville, MD.

He also runs a very valuable website called the “Haplogroup Predictor” which allows users to input STR data and generate the haplogroup which marks those STR data.

For those who want to know what a haplogroup is, here is a “simple” definition: a haplogroup is a group of similar haplotypes that share a common ancestor with a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mutation.

Still none the wiser? Damn these scientists.

Ok, let’s try it this way: a haplotype is a combination of multiple specific locations of a gene or DNA sequence on a chromosome.

Haplogroups are assigned letters of the alphabet, and refinements consist of additional number and letter combinations, for example R1b or R1b1. Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA haplogroups have different haplogroup designations. In essence, haplogroups give an inisight into ancestral origins dating back thousands of years.

By entering all the STR data inadvertently shown on the Discovery video, a 99.6 percent fit with the R1b haplogroup is revealed.

The significance is, of course, that R1b is the most common Y-chromosome haplogroup in Europe reaching its highest concentrations in Ireland, Scotland, western England and the European Atlantic seaboard — in other words, European through and through.

So much for the Afro-centrists and others who have derided the very obvious northwestern European appearance of a large number of the pharonic mummies. It seems like March of the Titans was right after all
http://dgmweb.net/DNA/Graphics/800px-R1b-DNA-Distribution.jpe
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  • artikaldon 2012/04/18 03:48:48
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    artikaldon
    +1
    This story has been debunked. The Racist individuals involved in this false study are one of many Europeans who resort to cheating their way through science. Seems they would rather theorize than observe and understand.
  • BrotherJavafiend 2012/02/12 18:25:11
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    BrotherJavafiend
    +1
    I Feel that it makes no difference where they came from, it is how they acted in thier life that counts.
  • irish -... Brother... 2012/02/13 12:44:20
    irish -liberty or death!
    yep.
  • EllE 2012/02/11 19:49:48 (edited)
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    EllE
    +1
    Actually pharaohs had mix, that can't be completely identified, especially as "European".
    Pharaohs had brown skin, but for sure not black like Nubians, sometimes red, caramel, etc. hair. (also most pharaoh mummies have straight or wavy hair, but not woolly like Nubians)
    Only after 25 Dynasty there were Black (Nubian) pharaohs.
    I think these pictures would represent the most likeliness to pharaohs:

    black nubians 25 dynasty black nubian pharaohs picture represent pharaohs

    blond hair 25 dynasty black nubian pharaohs picture represent pharaohs

    Indigenous Egyptians/Copts: (not-Arabs)

    25 dynasty black nubian pharaohs pictures represent pharaohs indigenous egyptianscopts

    arab ancestors obama semitic jew-arab african lol obamas semitic black

    arab ancestors obama semitic jew-arab african lol obamas semitic black
  • irish -... EllE 2012/02/12 12:25:33
    irish -liberty or death!
    +1
    actually a lot of them did have red hair.
  • artikaldon irish -... 2012/04/18 03:32:50
    artikaldon
    +1
    Yup cuz Egyptians regularly dyed their hair....oh and also wore wigs long before Europeans followed suit.
  • irish -... artikaldon 2012/04/18 11:48:29
    irish -liberty or death!
    +1
    no they really had red hair.
  • GregOde... irish -... 2012/10/07 08:10:34
    GregOdensD**k
    +2
    Resins from the embalming or mummification process will turn the hair red or blonde. These chemicals on these bodies had many years to preserve and even bleach the hair. Over twenty years ago I cut all my natural brown undyed hair off and gave a lock to my mother as a keep sake. She put it in a tiny box and covered it with lavender, rose petals, sage, pieces of frankincense and myrrh gum. A couple of years ago I came across the box and opened it. I was surprised to find the lock's color had turned into what some would call reddish blond. The herbs and gum resins altered the color dramatically.
  • irish -... GregOde... 2012/10/07 13:21:45
    irish -liberty or death!
    +1
    Professor P. F. Ceccaldi, with a research team, studied some hairs from the mummy's scalp. Ramesses II was thought to be 87 years-old when he died, and his hair had turned white. Ceccaldi determined that the reddish-yellow color of the hair was due to a dye with a dilute henna solution. Many Egyptians dyed their hair, and this personal habit was preserved by the embalmers. However, traces of the hair's original color remained in the roots. Microscopic examinations showed that the hair roots contained natural red pigments, and that therefore, during his younger days, Ramesses II had been a red head. Analysis concluded that these red pigments did not result from the hair somehow fading, or otherwise being altered after death, but did represent Ramesses' natural hair color. Ceccaldi also studied the cross-section of the hairs, and determined from their oval shape, that Ramesses had been "cymotrich" (wavy-haired). Finally, he stated that such a combination of features showed that Ramesses had been a "leucoderm" (white-skinned person).
  • EllE irish -... 2013/02/17 11:29:22 (edited)
    EllE
    Science concluded: Indigenous Populations

    "The population of North Africa in ancient times consisted predominantly of Berbers in the West and Egyptians in the East.

    The Semitic Phoenicians and Jews, the Iranian Alans, and the European Greeks, Romans and Vandals settled in North Africa as well.

    Berber speaking populations constitute significant communities within Morocco and Algeria and are also still present in smaller numbers in Tunisia and Libya.

    The Tuareg and other often-nomadic peoples are the principal inhabitants of the Saharan interior of North Africa.

    The Nubians, who developed an ancient civilization in Northeast Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia), are among the predominately Nilo-Saharan-speaking groups found in Sudan, in addition to the Fur, Zaghawa and Nuba, among others."

    Egyptians:

    times consisted berbers west egyptians east httpen wikipedia orgwiki egyptians

    Berbers:

    ancient times consisted berbers west egyptians east httpen wikipedia orgwiki

    Berber redheads & blondes:

    groups sudan addition fur zaghawa nuba egyptians berbers berber redheads

    groups sudan addition fur zaghawa nuba egyptians berbers berber redheads

    sudan addition fur zaghawa nuba egyptians berbers berber redheads blondes
  • EllE EllE 2013/02/17 11:29:49
    EllE
    Further information: Genetic history of North Africa

    "The prehistoric populations of North Africa are related to the wider group of Paleo-Mediterranean peoples.
    The Afroasiatic phylum probably originated in the mesolithic period, perhaps in the context of the Capsian culture.
    DNA analysis has found commonalities between Berber populations and those of the Sami people of Scandinavia showing a link dating from around 9,000 years ago.
    By 5000 BC, the populations of North Africa are an amalgamation of Ibero-Maurisian and Capsian stock blended with a more recent intrusion associated with the Neolithic revolution.
    Out of these populations, the proto-Berber tribes form during the Late Bronze to Early Iron Age."

    Sami People:

    proto-berber tribes form late bronze iron age berber sami people
  • EllE irish -... 2013/02/17 11:36:13 (edited)
    EllE
    Indeed.
    But Afrocentrists will never accept the science, genetic analysts of mummies, etc. & will keep showing to you artistic paintings to prove that Nubians are the real Egyptians! LOL

    PS
    "Microscopic inspection of the roots of Ramesses II hair proved that the king's hair was originally red, which suggests that he came from a family of redheads.
    This has more than just cosmetic significance: in ancient Egypt people with red hair were associated with the god Seth, the slayer of Osiris, and the name of Ramesses II's father, Seti I, means "follower of Seth."
    The Ramessides (the family of Ramesses II), believed themselves to be divine descendants of Seth, with their red hair as proof of their lineage."

    Ramsses II

    slayer osiris ramesses iis father seti follower seth ramsses ii

    Yuya

    obama semitic jew-arab african lol obamas semitic black tuya yuya

    Tuya

    obama semitic jew-arab african lol obamas semitic black tuya yuya

    Thutmose IV

    jew-arab african lol obamas semitic black tuya yuya thutmose iv

    Hatshepsut

    semitic jew-arab african lol obamas semitic black tuya yuya hatshepsut
  • artikaldon EllE 2012/04/18 03:20:06
    artikaldon
    +3
    Nonsense...the first 18 dynasties were all Ethiopian, not at all European, and it is actually the last several dynasties which saw the decline and ascension of the European Pharaoh. Today the Arabs hold that post. Nubians and Ethiopians did alot more 'mixing' than with any outsiders and the cradle of kemet, what you call egypt was not in the north, but far south in sudan and ethiopia. Places Eurasians dared not go till very recently. Egyptian civilization is basically Nubian in many respects and can be found in similar cultural phenomenon.



    Also the guy on the left in your image is obviously not black and they guy on the right is obviously black, lips, nose and all are different, though kinda have similar eyes and face shape. The guy on the right is a black guy with eye liner. See this

    Obama the new Pharoah
  • artikaldon artikaldon 2012/04/18 03:34:51
    artikaldon
    +3
    Oh and call obama bi racial if you want, whites still treat him like a ni((((
  • EllE artikaldon 2012/04/19 04:01:32 (edited)
    EllE
    +2
    Many Pharaoh's had red, caramel, blond, etc. hair as Jews in the past & brown skin. It was proven by genetic analysis of pharaoh mummies.
    Most pharaoh mummies have straight or wavy hair, but not woolly as Nubians.

    Also, you can read about hair color even in Tora / Old Testament.
    One example:
    “And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.” (1 Samuel l 17:42)
    Another translation from Hebrew is golden-haired.

    About Obama... Obama's mother was a Jew & father had Arab ancestors, so Obama is Semitic (Jew-Arab) more than African. LOL
    And so, Obama's face looks more Semitic than black. )))
  • Corvus EllE 2013/02/16 07:59:07 (edited)
    Corvus
    +2
    Your an idiot, and please shut up! I find it strange that anyone like you, will get on here and say Egyptians had blond and red hair. Where is your proof? Secondly you can take a look at any Egyptian tomb, and what are they always depicted as? Brown with a red hue moron! Ramses is always depicted the same way, and never seen with out his crown! So where exactly are these red and blond Egyptians?

    Those are Africans
  • Corvus EllE 2013/02/16 08:36:02 (edited)
    Corvus
    +3
    Perhaps we should observe a retouched image from the Tomb KV22, and the painting of (Amenhotep III). Thank goodness your such a simpleton, and i don't even have to pull out scholarly sources or academic journals, from old and modern sources.

    Amenhotep KV22

    This is clearly and African, so shove that European crap, back up your ass!

    Secondly what you say doesn't match physical examination, many osteological test conducted on Egyptian crania, show a parallel between Nubian skulls and Egyptians. This was proven on Thutmose.

    http://wysinger.homestead.com...
    Here's a source from Sonia R Zakrzewski, Department of Archaeology

    If i bring out anything else... you will be killed by your own ignorance.
  • Corvus EllE 2013/02/16 08:50:48
    Corvus
    +3
    I can't... but want to further disprove your ridiculous statement! Please don't ever get on the internet and be this stupid ever again!

    African

    Africulture

    So your telling me... Even though British Acrhaeologist E.A.Wallis.Budge proved a direct cultural link, between the ancient Egyptian religion and those of SSA, you would still be ignorant? Clear cultural connection here!
  • Corvus EllE 2013/02/16 09:13:20 (edited)
    Corvus
    +1
    Let's examine the Egyptian & Nubian military

    Nubian Amry
    Nubian

    Egyptian Army
    Egyptian

    Sub Saharan African link and Influence, and let's not even get into how many pyramids were built in the Sudan, as opposed to Egypt...

    Oromo1

    oromo2

    oromo3

    your failing to prove Egyptians were anything other than African in origin, and had no direct relation to their predecessors of the south!! How sad...
  • Corvus EllE 2013/02/16 09:25:54
    Corvus
    +1
    I believe the Egyptians speak for themselves in so many ways.

    Egypt5

    carnia

    egyptian

    again

    I think it's quite clear who the Egyptians were. Africans indeed! No real explanation is necessary...
  • Corvus EllE 2013/02/16 09:30:11
    Corvus
    +2
    Let's see what the women of Egypt have to say!!

    EWomen
    Ewomen2
    Ewomen3

    These appear to be African women. Indigenous to the continent!
  • Corvus EllE 2013/02/16 09:48:44 (edited)
    Corvus
    AFRICAN FACES OF DIVERSITY

    carnia

    carnia

    carnia

    carnia

    carnia

    carnia

    Guess you thought all Africans looked like this... HUH? :/
    nope

    STILL NOT SEEING THAT YOUR EUROPEAN CONNECTION!!
    African import

    smoke house

    Sudan

    Have you seen the history

    Have you seen the history of my people? Because if you had... You wouldn't sound like an unlearned joke.

    Don't waste your time responding! YOU'VE BEEN DEBUNKED!!
  • Corvus artikaldon 2013/02/16 08:53:06 (edited)
    Corvus
    +3
    Thank you for telling the real story, ELLE ain't to bright when it comes to this subject. After reading her ridiculous post!
  • EllE EllE 2013/02/16 16:53:32
    EllE
    PS Paintings are not scientific, they are artistic.
    Genetic analysis of Mummies is scientific.
  • Corvus EllE 2013/02/17 04:54:53 (edited)
    Corvus
    Okay then, please break down the symbolic or artistic meaning of this tomb painting!


    Here is a clear depiction of Ramses in his life, with the same brown skin the Egyptians always have! Your telling me... it's mere coincidence that they are always painted the same way?!!

    So i guess this depiction of the Mayans, and Maya Indians, bare no relation either??






    Like i said, please don't come on the internet making ridiculous claims!
    Especially when i have personally consulted, and collected numerous amounts of
    evidence supporting an African Egypt. I'll give you credit, Greeks ruled Egypt during the Ptolemy dynasty, and Rome afterward! But unless you come up with a more solid rebuttal, to discredit an African Egypt, i suggest you shut your mouth! Let's also consider the fact that the Egyptians themselves came from Sub Saharan Africa, from the land of Punt(Ta'Netjer), Modern day Eritrea!

    Also if you payed any attention, I referenced Archaeologist E.A. Wallis Budge! He wrote and academic journal, pointing out the origins of Egyptian culture! His conclusion, Sub Saharan Africa! Clearly you didn't read the anatomical study done by Archaeologist Sonia R. Zakzewski!! Do i really need to copy and paste the whole source! I know your generation has a problem with doing actual research!

    You can al...
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    Okay then, please break down the symbolic or artistic meaning of this tomb painting!
    ramses II

    Here is a clear depiction of Ramses in his life, with the same brown skin the Egyptians always have! Your telling me... it's mere coincidence that they are always painted the same way?!!

    So i guess this depiction of the Mayans, and Maya Indians, bare no relation either??
    Maya
    Maya




    Like i said, please don't come on the internet making ridiculous claims!
    Especially when i have personally consulted, and collected numerous amounts of
    evidence supporting an African Egypt. I'll give you credit, Greeks ruled Egypt during the Ptolemy dynasty, and Rome afterward! But unless you come up with a more solid rebuttal, to discredit an African Egypt, i suggest you shut your mouth! Let's also consider the fact that the Egyptians themselves came from Sub Saharan Africa, from the land of Punt(Ta'Netjer), Modern day Eritrea!

    Also if you payed any attention, I referenced Archaeologist E.A. Wallis Budge! He wrote and academic journal, pointing out the origins of Egyptian culture! His conclusion, Sub Saharan Africa! Clearly you didn't read the anatomical study done by Archaeologist Sonia R. Zakzewski!! Do i really need to copy and paste the whole source! I know your generation has a problem with doing actual research!

    You can also look up (Christoper Ehert), He's African linguist and historian of UCLA! Who could easily disprove you!! I don't have time for people, who's only response to my information, ("PS Paintings are not scientific, they are artistic.
    Genetic analysis of Mummies is scientific.") <------... Then present a study disproving my information! Your opinions don't count, against cold hard facts!!

    crania
    crania

    I posted the paintings and pictures of real Africans, so you could observe there features! Which clearly you have a hard time doing!
    (more)
  • Corvus EllE 2013/02/17 05:31:04 (edited)
  • P-Funk 2010/07/15 04:55:39
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    P-Funk
    +1
    Wow. Most of the comments on the EU Times website were just pathetic -- all around. It's tragic how so many people get all bent out of shape over whether their race is superior to everyone else's instead of (a) seeking the truth about ourselves and how we came to be who we are, and (b) seeking the commonalities we all share instead of looking for petty, insignificant ways to say "I'm better than you."

    Maybe being such a racial and ethnic mutt just makes me see things differently, but I am immensely proud of every component of my ethnic mix -- I'm proud of my White heritage, my Black heritage, and my Asian heritage -- and all the little regional and cultural parts of those heritages. They have ALL contributed valuable parts of the whole person I am. I just don't understand why everybody can't look at a discovery like this and say, hmmmm, maybe we all have more in common than we realized instead of turning it into a hate-fest.

    Umpty-thousand years of human existence and we're still no better than this.
  • irish -... P-Funk 2010/07/15 11:03:22
    irish -liberty or death!
    well said! i guess Zahi Hawass understands human pettiness well! we are all humans . archeology looks for our past history out of curiosity and to know not to make one race better than another.
  • seriouswon P-Funk 2010/08/06 18:53:46
    seriouswon
    +1
    It is true...you see things differently. This isn't about hate for me...it's about truth. We've been told for years that Tut was Black or Brown and now we find that he is White. I think it's very, very interesting.
  • P-Funk seriouswon 2010/08/06 19:13:01
    P-Funk
    +1
    As I told one of my kids the other day, the truth is oten hideous to behold, but to refuse to face the truth is a fast-track to insanity. There is so much we have yet to discover. It's disheartening that, when a discovery like this is made, so many of us get caught up in politicizing it in some way rather than focusing on the new questons and possibilities it raises ...

    If Tut was "white" (and "white" may have been different 3,300 years ago than it appears on the surface today), what about his subjects? Was Egypt an ancient melting pot of races and cultures? Were the pharaohs kings because they were so different from their subjects that they were accepted as gods? If they were ethnically different, where did they come from? How did they rise to power in Egypt? Etc., etc.

    Why can't we be fascinated to find the answers to these mysteries and learn from them something that might help us solve modern cultural and ethnic controversies, rather than surrender to the impulse to become contentious over it?
  • irish -... P-Funk 2010/08/07 10:54:28
    irish -liberty or death!
    i agree. i find it fascinating. who cares? the ones who get upset are the ones who want to claim this or that as their past. we are all human are we not?
  • EllE P-Funk 2012/02/11 20:08:06 (edited)
    EllE
    +1
    Actually, 60,000 years ago all humans had dark skin. LOL
    And 20,000 years from now, everyone will be light skinned, if we will hide from sun as today. LOL

    humans black lol 20000 years light skinned hide sun lol
  • keeper 2010/07/13 00:31:38
    comment
    keeper
    +3
    Does this mean that someone of his ancestors was hiding in the woodpile...
  • irish -... keeper 2010/07/13 11:17:44
    irish -liberty or death!
    +1
    who knows!
  • P-Funk keeper 2010/08/06 19:15:52
    P-Funk
    +1
    It's a rare family in which there hasn't been a few "somebodies" hiding in the woodpile along the way! If more of us realized that, maybe we'd learn to get along better.
  • Annie~Pro American~Pro Israel 2010/07/12 22:57:13 (edited)
    comment
    Annie~Pro American~Pro Israel
    +2
    Fascinating, wonder how this important attribution in history was lost in the first place.

    Interesting comments at cited website ---
    http://www.eutimes.net/2010/0...
  • irish -... Annie~P... 2010/07/12 22:58:09
    irish -liberty or death!
    probably because people didn't care too much.
  • Annie~P... Jester 2010/07/12 23:24:58
    Annie~Pro American~Pro Israel
    +2
    Then instead of attacking Jester, state your points objectively.
  • irish -... Annie~P... 2010/07/12 23:33:30
    irish -liberty or death!
    +1
    exactly,thank you!
  • wpsark_BN_0 2010/07/12 21:54:18
    comment
    wpsark_BN_0
    +1
    Very interesting

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