Egypt
Antiquity Volume 83 No.319
- King Tut Had Twins, But Why?
Live Science (Meredith F. Small) A rather different take on the Tutankhamun foetus story: Two mummified fetuses found in Tutankhamen's tomb back in 1922 are probably twins, despite the fact that one is much larger than the other, a team of scientists...
- Bodies Found In The Tomb Of Tutankhamun's Tomb Are Twin Daughters
Times Online (Aditi Khanna) Two foetuses found buried with Tutankhamun may have been his twin daughters, an expert has claimed. Professor Robert Connolly, an anatomist who is working with Egyptian authorities to analyse the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh,...
- More Re Dna Testing To Be Carried Out On Fetuses
Discovery Channel Ongoing analysis on the mummified remains of two female fetuses buried in the tomb of Tutankhamun will most likely show that at least one of the stillborn children is the offspring of the teenage pharaoh, a scientist who carried serological...
- King Tut's Babies?
Here we have an article from Al Ahram on the studying the fetus's found in the boy kings tomb. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/909/fr1.htm ...
- Anybody Loose A Fetus
This article is on Dr. Zahi Hawass's continued examination of all the royal mummies with his new DNA lab. Though I imagine getting DNA from these deteriorated mummies will be difficult. Though the two fetus's were found in King Tutankamen that...
Egypt
Antiquity vol 83, no.319, March 2009
Antiquity Volume 83 No.319
For those who have subscriptions or academic access, the following article in Antiquity may be of interest:
C.A. Hellier and R.C. Connolly
A re-assessment of the larger fetus found in Tutankhamen's tomb
As noted by Geoffrey Chamberlain, the two baby girls found in Tutankhamen's tomb were probably his stillborn heirs. More controversially he suggested that they were twins, although one appeared to be larger than the other. Here new research on estimating the age of a fetus is shown to support the twin hypothesis, while recent work on Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome explains why they could be such different sizes.
A re-assessment of the larger fetus found in Tutankhamen's tomb
As noted by Geoffrey Chamberlain, the two baby girls found in Tutankhamen's tomb were probably his stillborn heirs. More controversially he suggested that they were twins, although one appeared to be larger than the other. Here new research on estimating the age of a fetus is shown to support the twin hypothesis, while recent work on Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome explains why they could be such different sizes.
- King Tut Had Twins, But Why?
Live Science (Meredith F. Small) A rather different take on the Tutankhamun foetus story: Two mummified fetuses found in Tutankhamen's tomb back in 1922 are probably twins, despite the fact that one is much larger than the other, a team of scientists...
- Bodies Found In The Tomb Of Tutankhamun's Tomb Are Twin Daughters
Times Online (Aditi Khanna) Two foetuses found buried with Tutankhamun may have been his twin daughters, an expert has claimed. Professor Robert Connolly, an anatomist who is working with Egyptian authorities to analyse the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh,...
- More Re Dna Testing To Be Carried Out On Fetuses
Discovery Channel Ongoing analysis on the mummified remains of two female fetuses buried in the tomb of Tutankhamun will most likely show that at least one of the stillborn children is the offspring of the teenage pharaoh, a scientist who carried serological...
- King Tut's Babies?
Here we have an article from Al Ahram on the studying the fetus's found in the boy kings tomb. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/909/fr1.htm ...
- Anybody Loose A Fetus
This article is on Dr. Zahi Hawass's continued examination of all the royal mummies with his new DNA lab. Though I imagine getting DNA from these deteriorated mummies will be difficult. Though the two fetus's were found in King Tutankamen that...