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Genetic Testing of Queen Mutnodjmet on Hold While Queen is AWOL

   Posted by: Shemsu Sesen   

Categories: Egypt in the News, Mummies

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mut-tabIt’s 4 am, do you know where your mummy is?

Zahi Hawass is ready to do his next mummy DNA study, this time on Queen Mutnodjmet.  Unfortunately, Her Majesty is MIA.  This is actually a pretty big deal because as the DNA study of the Eighteenth Dynasty continues cross referencing may prove that Mutnodjmet and Nefertiti are actually sisters. 

I blog about this under my daytime name, Keith Payne, over at Heritage Key.  Check out Queen Mutnodjmet: Another Branch in Tutankhamun’s Genetic Line Found (and Lost)?

 

Illustration ”Mutnedjmet.gif” by Wiki user Alensha, is provided courtesy of Wikimedia Commons  and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of those files under the conditions that you appropriately attribute them, and that you distribute them only under a license identical to this one. Official license.  Alterations by Shemsu Sesen / Keith Payne:  Background and text added. 

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Vincent Brown
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Hi Keith, both of those links are non-functional. It seems that Heritage Key is off-line…at the moment at least. I’ll try again later.

August 19th, 2009 at 2:09 am
Shemsu Sesen
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Vincent,

Sounds like an internet hiccup. I just tried them and they were working.

Thanks for the heads up!

The original story from Al-Ahram is kind of funny in that it just sort of just glosses over the fact that the mummy has been lost! To me that was the real story!

August 19th, 2009 at 8:15 am

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