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Who was King Tut... really?

2010-09-15 | 🔗

When Egyptologists studied King Tutankhamen's DNA, they learned some surprising things: In addition to being disabled, the king was inbred. And this is just the beginning. Learn more about the real King Tut -- and where he came from -- in this podcast.

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Gee Revolution could enable their teams to thrive the restless ones available, and I heard radio up or what do you listen to podcasts, welcome to stuff, you missed in history, class from house works, dot, com hello and welcome to the pride cast Iron Katy laboured and unfair daddy and I'm gonna start off by admitting something. It's really exciting when the National Geographic and my mailbox turned out to be mummy issue unless it's ice, Mommy's which to be honest, kind of Crete me, I guess, there's not a big ice mummy fan, but in this case in our pockets a for today we're talking about egyptian mummies, specifically King Tut and plus ten other eightieth dynasty miles and that National Geographic Cover story that I thought was a follow up on study published late last winter in the Journal of the American medical
the asian JAMA and you probably, some of the headlines about this one from National Geographic NEWS. King tat was disabled, malarial and inbred. Dna shows and from discovery news. The king tat were orthopedic sandal, which is terribly cutting these headlines made me real, feel really sorry for in tat our river emailing aware emailing, Katy thing how embarrassing for em, but very go not that we think orthopedic handles are embarrassing, would like to clarify that this whole thing made us both think back to are never tee, episode and her very obscure, and so to give you a little refresher, there's this strange murky period of history between the death of never tedious husband and the ascendancy of TAT
really know where this boy came from or whose child he is, or just what happened in this in this period of history. So it made us think it's time for a follow up at the third in plus a closer look at the study and a closer look at the more recent news that contesting one of the points of the study we like controversy, I have lateral controversy in mystery in this episode, so our story starts with the power Pharaoh Aman Hotel. The third ruling in the new kingdom during the eighteenth dynasty, which is about one ninety b c and he's no small potatoes and fair play he's, a big guy he's, got an empire from the Euphrates to the fourth cataract of the Nile, and he rains forth. Seven years with his queen tie, he succeeded by their son Aman Hotel, the fourth and
You listen to that. Never tt up a third! You know what's coming up neck. This guy is the heretic king, who decides to ditch the Chief God arm in place. All the other addiction and worship. Only one God Auton and he chain his name to act not, and he and his wife never tv have six waters than they active high priest to this new religion have created. He eliminates the almond priesthood, he leaves thieves, he even changes the way are lax, making lots of sunshine because attention is the sun God they like to have their art, have them selves depicted outside, but the feminine using the male form, which has led some people to think. Maybe there was, and for that that can be one of our genetic mysteries for later in the apathy and after OC, Nortons death. We have that Mr Perry
featuring a shadowy king S, men cookery and maybe even Neffer TV as a female Pharaoh. Dad he's out, whatever happens nine year old student cotton and comes out is king. In the end, I'm not mispronouncing at its root in cotton. So will this young tooting cottoned keep up? This religion under Auton no within two years, the boy king returns to the old ways. He changes his name to tune common and the temples are reopened. They come back to thieves and his wife, a daughter of never tedious, knocking on changes, her name as well, but tat, dead before his twenties and he leaves no living children he's. The way to a comparatively meagre tomb, it's not at all what we think of when we think of grand Egyptians King TAT term is supposed to be filled with the treasures to end all treasures, that's kind of what people initially thought, but it's just the simple fact: all of the great Pharaoh's terms have been wrong.
So long ago that all their stuff is gone were left with king tired. It looks good to us that it wasn't The terrible lie at the time when line of kings is completely wiped out from memory. After he's dead, it's there no memory of that time under on at all, even though he is the guy who blew brings them back to the old religion. Just his association with this here at all. In, though, he's the guy who, who brings them back to the old religion, just his association, east from memory. His tomb is so obscure, so hidden away its covered, pretty quickly that grave robbers don't I find it in when Howard Carter opens it in nineteen, to its barely. Entire states, perhaps of ripe with curses, and we are left with all this amazing treasure the amazed golden mask and coffin and Who is this young boy?
behind the handsome gold mask and for a long time people thought he might have been struck dead so by a blow to the head, or perhaps a hunting accident somebody the things that would kill a nineteen year old right, but a two thousand five cities scan shows that now, actually the whole in TAT had had to do with his embalming and not his death and also show that he had a broken leg. But while see tee scan can tell us a lot. It couldn't tell us who he was. Dna. Can So this JAMA study looked at the dna. Markers of king type can mommy Few are likely to be, as can and five unrelated mummies as control. They were older mummies, though the site as well. King of the variable regions of dna to see what exactly got ass from generation to generation and a match of eight with good enough to establish a blood relation so they tested each mommy from at least two spots, trying to avoid contamination going deepened
the bone and they are doing this as the mummies could have been contaminated by their ancient egyptian priests, who actually mummified them. Or even the lab people we're working on them, so they had a them against themselves as well. So they were formed is that we knew already we ve got tat. We ve got omen hotel, the third that great eighteenth dynasty Pharaoh and we know the parents of his wife tie you yeah and to you. So those are the ones that we already that we already had for sure and then there are lots of mummies that we dealt now. There's a male mummy, cavy. Fifty five found in the valley of the kings. In nineteen o, seven with a defaced coffin, fifth term Lee add decompose to his SAM to be acknowledged and even small car. I we also have to female mummies in eighteen, ninety, eight hidden away in a kings tomb and their cause, the elder lady and the younger lady. There are also two
their female mommy's buried in the valley, who are presumed to be royalty because of their left arm crossed over their chest, and we ve also got to female fetuses found in touch tomb, who are believed to be his daughters. So who is who, though, first we're gonna start with? Who is tat? Dad tat had called on the hook up there, his father, but that with a vague term, it could mean your ancestor. It could mean your grandfather it. It didn't, have to necessarily mean your actual father and it was an almond hotel. The third dead before TAT was desolate. History suggested so other candidates, I cannot in or even man could carry whoever Psmith Curry is, which is gonna proved to be a little bit of an issue. Here, though, the results of this millennia, old, paternity tat turn out as though Her tab is ninety nine point, nine percent for sure the father of that mystery, Mummy, cavy, fifty five caveats
five is: ninety nine point, nine nine percent sure the Father of King Tut. So there we are. Three generations of Mummy through related to each other. But we still don't no, the identities and Katy. Fifty five is obviously not on an hotel, but because he's the grandfather exactly so, could it be? I cannot and could it be smoke car scientists can say for sure, but our money is on OC nonsense. One! We sure I know who he is and to he would have been the right age to have sire tat, since his city scan showed signs of middle age ailments, so this uncertain stand Shaw evidence here, son who, initially the scientists, had thought that that cavy fifty five mummy with a young man, maybe only twenty five years old and do The number of children that are had it couldn't have been ham butt
middle age ailments proof that he was programme more like about forty years old certain. Next, we ve got to look at tat, maternal line. If I'm an hotel. The third is tat. Grandfather was his wife Queen tie his grandma. And to figure this one, our scientists, comparatively known parents of queen, tie who are you yeah and to you to these so called elder lady who Sir said, is so well preserved. Stereo. You should look up a picture of her. She looks like this very, very Jaime Dry person, with lots of hair and a strange sort of sentimental side. Note on that here, a lock of it had been found in King Tut Tomb in this little series of nesting com and then it was labelled as the hair of queen tie. So we we hire me sweet tat. We have this question that maybe clean tat grandmother. The DNA
I commend the elder. Lady is the daughter of you, you and through you, so she is high and cavy. Fifty five is her son. The puzzle pieces coming together. Here, though, our next question is: who is king TAT smile? the younger lady who was found with tie her dna matches tat, split hairs, that severely. Inbred bit from the headlines starts up The younger lady is also the daughter of Almond hotel, the third and tie worth raising some greater enough air. We ve only got to grandparents felt king tat, small dad our brother and sister year end. Don't know this one. Name, the younger lady, we do know, though, that she's not never tedium key. So, let's go back a little. Let's assume that touch Father is not an agnostic had to vary Miss wives, never tv who was the subject of our past and Cuba.
There is nothing mentioned anywhere about either of them being his sister, so we can assume that it is entirely different woman, but because and hotels and tie had several daughters were just not sure exactly which one it is so that's forged nations figured out, and that brings us to Tut's own family, so one of the fetus is found in his tomb is definitely his daughter. We on the other one as well, and their mother and Tut's wife might be The women buried with be crossed arms in the valley. Tat life have been described historically as never Chadian, icons, daughter, and knowing what we know now, this would make her tat, half sister and even The baby's dont show severe malformations, it's it's possible, The line was by this point too, and bread to bring a living air into the world yeah, which bring ass to another issue that came out of the study, this family had
Major malformation tat, especially with his club flight and a deformed toe, is missing a bone, a cleft palette. Possibly he suffered from the Croesus Malaria and a broken leg right for he died. So if you, if you add things in things like malaria, a broken leg, it starts to seem like this very thickly Pharaoh could be taken easily what he was only nineteen when he died as we mention, and he had at least one hundred thirty Keynes in his tomb. So what makes you think it probably wasn't, decoration these weren't regal staff likely needed them to walk, which explains why he's so often shown sitting down in portrait the time here and because this family being possibly because this family is so in Brad MA formations abound in lots of his family members, there's a cleft palate and fully as this and are not in a club but an almond hotel. The third sclerosis and club
in the Mummy Cavy twenty one a has the younger lady but tough wife. So we have this pile up of of malformations in the field but there is actually a genetic disorder, anything that would have made up not an oar tut androgynous, though, that it is seriously just the the style of the art the timing of the feminist art from that period. That shows man with what looked like ass round. Derrida Langley helps yeah yeah, that's just apparently what was what was? What was the aisle if you redrawing, but again we? haven't. You are a little bit of controversy. June a group of german scientists question this JAMA egyptian Study and said that Tut's foot bones actually suggest he had sickle cell disease, which is something that can lead to than across the tissue death, and they have called for more study, of which you said. That is how we
episode breeds multiple follow up. Space athletes is always something new that were finding have part two part. Three though after TAT dies, we, who is probably his widow, pleads to the Hittite king to send her a prince and the dispatched prince never make that tour, and we have this bridge period of arms control and then finally, Egypt passes on to a new Pharaoh whose Ramses the first and we get the surge of new blood into Egypt. So it makes a thing. People request the Habsburg Shin alive. How rain and always talked about some of the Habsburg actually in their inbreeding, but royal into a big keep power in the family. But it's a pretty big genetic gamble for men is a very good example of that gap, and that brings us to
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