Egypt
CBS News (Stephanie Pappas)
News from the Valley of the Kings (Kate Phizackerley)
Kate has a look at the sources used for the iGENEA claims.
- Hawass On Kv64, Pyramids And Other Hopes For 2011
You Tube Thanks to Kate Phizackerley's News from the Valley of the Kings blog for this link. Rossella Lorenzi (Discovery News) interviews Zahi Hawass about excavation work being carried out at the moment and his hopes for 2011. The sound quality is...
- Interactive Tutankhamun Dna
National Geographic Thanks to Ann Barrett for the link. Whether you believe in the results or not, this is still a rather good graphic representation of the DNA analysis in the family of Tutankhamun. Genetic testing on 11 mummies revealed the remains...
- More Re Tutankhamun Dna - Haplogroups
http://wysinger.homestead.com/haplotypes_in_egypt.pdf Thanks to Adrienne Giacon, via Kate Phizackerley's News from the Valley of the Kings blog for the above link (and thanks to Kate for bringing it to my attention). And here's a link to Kate's...
- Akhenaten's Toe Returned To Egypt
Middle East Online The toe of King Akhenaton, which was stolen in 1907 during an examination of the pharaoh's bones, was returned during a signing ceremony for an agreement with Switzerland over the return of ancient artefacts, the council said. "The...
- Molecular Biologist's Response To The Jama Paper Re Tutankhamun
Pling (Margaret Patterson) Sincere thanks to John Patterson for sending this link. John's wife, who's an (ex-)molecular biologist, read the JAMA paper (and the supplemental data) and wrote a long blog post about her thoughts on the genetics parts...
Egypt
More re Swiss take on Tutankhamun DNA
CBS News (Stephanie Pappas)
A personal genomics company in Switzerland says they've reconstructed a DNA profile of King Tutankhamen by watching the Discovery Channel, claiming the results suggest more than half of Western European men are related to the boy king. But researchers who worked to decode Tut's genome in the first place say the claim is "unscientific."
Swiss genomics company iGENEA has launched a Tutankhamen DNA project based on what they say are genetic markers that appeared on a computer screen during a Discovery Channel special on the famous pharaoh's genetic lineage.
"Maybe they didn't know what they showed, but we got 16 markers from the Y chromosome from these pharaohs," Roman Scholz, the managing director of iGENEA, told LiveScience.
If the claims were true, it would put King Tut in a genetic profile group shared by more than half of Western European men. That would make those men relatives — albeit distant ones — of the pharaoh.
News from the Valley of the Kings (Kate Phizackerley)
Kate has a look at the sources used for the iGENEA claims.
- Hawass On Kv64, Pyramids And Other Hopes For 2011
You Tube Thanks to Kate Phizackerley's News from the Valley of the Kings blog for this link. Rossella Lorenzi (Discovery News) interviews Zahi Hawass about excavation work being carried out at the moment and his hopes for 2011. The sound quality is...
- Interactive Tutankhamun Dna
National Geographic Thanks to Ann Barrett for the link. Whether you believe in the results or not, this is still a rather good graphic representation of the DNA analysis in the family of Tutankhamun. Genetic testing on 11 mummies revealed the remains...
- More Re Tutankhamun Dna - Haplogroups
http://wysinger.homestead.com/haplotypes_in_egypt.pdf Thanks to Adrienne Giacon, via Kate Phizackerley's News from the Valley of the Kings blog for the above link (and thanks to Kate for bringing it to my attention). And here's a link to Kate's...
- Akhenaten's Toe Returned To Egypt
Middle East Online The toe of King Akhenaton, which was stolen in 1907 during an examination of the pharaoh's bones, was returned during a signing ceremony for an agreement with Switzerland over the return of ancient artefacts, the council said. "The...
- Molecular Biologist's Response To The Jama Paper Re Tutankhamun
Pling (Margaret Patterson) Sincere thanks to John Patterson for sending this link. John's wife, who's an (ex-)molecular biologist, read the JAMA paper (and the supplemental data) and wrote a long blog post about her thoughts on the genetics parts...