Tutankhamen's Familial DNA Tells Tale of Boy Pharaoh's Disease and Incest

Monday, February 22, 2010 - 01:42 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Despite his brief nine-year reign, Tutankhamen is probably the most famous pharaoh of ancient Egypt. Because his tomb had not been robbed at the time of its discovery in 1922, historians have been...

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