DNA resolves some mystery on King Tut

DNA testing has unraveled some of the mystery surrounding the birth and death of pharaoh king Tutenkhamun, revealing his father was a famed monotheistic king and ruling out Nefertiti as his mother. The research, lead by Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass, showed the pharoah died of malaria after suffering a fall, putting to rest the theory that the enigmatic boy-king was murdered.Duration: 01:52

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[takfam07]

@firstladyshine I generally buy the out-of-Africa theory. But I'm also open to the "multiregional theory," simply because I know that fossilization is a near-miraculous event. It so happens that East Africa is ideal for it. But it doesn't therefore mean that humans didn't evolve separately in other regions of the globe, just because fossilization didn't occur in those places--or, we haven't found them yet. In this case, it truly holds that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

[firstladyshine]

@takfam07 Yes, we developed in so-called sub-Saharan Afrika. But what became north Afrikans is our lineage, along with our cultures & languages. We spread throughout Asia & Europe. THEN people mutated into the various races & mixed with neanderthal. If you want to seperate yourself from Afrikans then your existance has been short-lived. What is special about us is that it all started with us. Every space on this planet tells a story about what happened to us & why we became the races of today.

[takfam07]

@firstladyshine No, sorry--the Negroid race developed in sub-Saharan Africa. The other races developed outside of sub-Saharan Africa. Genetically, all the other races are more closely related to each other, than any of them are related to Negroids. Plus, all non-Negroid races have Neandertal genes. There's nothing primary or special about Negritude. The black race developed just like the others--in response to their environment, with their characteristic strengths and weaknesses.

[firstladyshine]

@takfam07 Now do some research on how all of the oldest bones, etc. found in England as well as Ireland were all BLACK!! Sorry, buddy, but this is a black planet. All of the world is Afrika. Also, never forget that R1b originated in north Afrika, not Europe. Your peoples history is not as old as you wish to think.

[SapphireDiamond19]

LOL you funny

[takfam07]

@90rashad Racial historian Arthur Kemp took King Tut's DNA through a Haplogroup Predictor created by retired physicist and professor Whit Athey. The resulting haplogroup came back with a 99.6% match with the R1b haplogroup: "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 I guess sickle cell anemia doesn't only affect blacks.

[Slojamoz]

@aminimaleffort Pity! Ur name n ur commentz show u haven't evolved from ur caveman, barbaric, beast behavior az yet, A Minimal Effort? ThANKHz for the "Nigger" Compliment! I should tell u that Nigger iz derived from Naga n several other similar wordz referring to The Black Godz/Goddessez Kingz/Queenz! So Keep Uzin it! If U Uze Some Effort At All n Research U will find My commentz on King Tut Are True! The "Niggerz" u speak of, have yet to see the reportz az well! MA'AT ONE LOVE!!!

[prolaser]

@aminimaleffort which am I going to take seriously ? The results of research from Bernhard Noct Institute for Tropical Medicine, as reported in The Independent ?

Or the nonsensical effrontery of a internet racist ?

[90rashad]

@takfam07 King Tut had Sickle Sell Anemia. King Tut was cushite not white.

[KingOfAfrica2012]

shalom