London, Feb. 14: Egyptian archaeologists claim to have finally solved the mystery of the lineage of boy King Tutankhamun more than 30 centuries after the pharaoh was sealed in a gold coffin.
A team led by Zahi Hawass of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities will on Wednesday reveal the results of DNA testing carried out over the past 18 months on the pharaoh’s mummy as well as two mummified foetuses found in his burial chamber, The Independent reported.According to Dr Hawass, the findings are the most exciting since the discovery of the tomb by the British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. Among the outstanding riddles, for example, is whether Tutankhamun’s mother was Queen Nefertiti — whose mummy is yet to be discovered — and whether the two foetuses found with him were his children. —PTI