First Royal Mummy Found Since Tut is Identified

brian0918 writes "In what is being described as the most important find in the Valley of the Kings since the discovery of King Tut, a single tooth has clinched the identification of an ancient mummy as that of Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt about 3,500 years ago. A molar inscribed with the queen's name, discovered in a wooden box in 1881 in a cache of royal mummies, was found to fit perfectly in the jaw of 'a fat woman in her 50s who had rotten teeth and died of bone cancer.' Reuters also reports on the DNA analysis: 'Preliminary results show similarities between its DNA and that of Ahmose Nefertari, the wife of the founder of the 18th dynasty and a probable ancestor of Hatsephsut's.'"

Oh baby...

[Anonymous Coward]

a fat woman in her 50s who had rotten teeth and died of bone cancer

Well don't stop there, I was just getting aroused...

The Irony

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone else find it ironic that these rulers enslaved entire races of people for generations to build gigantic pyramids so that they would never be forgotten only to have grave robbers steal everything and Western archaeologists show up thousands of years later asking, "Who the fuck were you?"

Queen Sut

[Jozxyqk]

Born in Arizona,
Moved to Babylonia,
Queen 'Sut.

Re:The Irony

[It doesn't come easy]

Ironically, I agree with you.

Re:Inscription

[EveryNickIsTaken]

This was the original "Grill." That's right.. Kickin' it *really* old school, egypt-style.

Re:The Irony

[sayfawa]

The fools. They should have had their slaves build something like this [wikimedia.org].

Re:Queen Sut

[Gaspo]

ID'd by a name carved in her mola Queen Sut

I have a 98% similarity in DNA...

[Short Circuit]

Can I get my inheritance, now?

Re:Inscription

[Rob T Firefly]

So in another 3500 years, archeologists will dig up Flava Flav and assume he was a wise and great leader? *shudder*

Re:Hold your horses, buddy

[smaddox]

You laugh, but my next-door-neighbor just got out his shotgun, white robes, and bible (in that order).

Re:Modern day descendants

[Comboman]

And furthermore those guys were mostly tyrants (why would they build a pyramid to themselves instead of lasting national infrastructure?).

Do you know how many millions of dollars a year the pyramids generate in tourism? Sounds like lasting national infrastructure to me.

Re:Oh baby...

[Forge]

I really should stop commenting on Moderation but how did this become off topic?

The guy is obviously turned on by fat, long dead Egyptians. Now if he was moderated troll or just "-1 sick, twisted, pervert" ...

What? No such moderation option? OK. I'll take it back.

Re:The Irony

[IDontAgreeWithYou]

Even more ironically I agree with you.

Re:The Irony

[Anonymous Coward]

odd because the people of the Nile were meticulous record keepers. If so many people had departed as suggested in the Bible, then many critical tasks would have gone undone or would have been performed poorly due to low staffing or unskilled workers performing the tasks in the place of the slaves.

Because all the accountants and book keepers were Jews?

Re:The Irony

[ari_j]

I give you three and a half stars. For full points, you would have needed to work it "The fools! If only they had..." to be fully Futurama compliant [wikipedia.org].

Re:The Irony

[Anonymous Coward]

What is it with you niggers always bringing up slavery. It is gone and past. Jesus fucking Christ, we even gave you the right to vote and all those other liberties and what have you done with it. The US was better off giving my wolves inalienable rights. What else do you want? I mean we set you free but you end up in the prisons, maybe slavery wasn't so bad after all huh? You guys seem to dig captivity. We even gave you a civil rights movement and give you a free ride to be as racist as you want. Enough is never enough with you people.

David Duke,
Grand Wizard Level 75 : WoW

Re:King Tut?

[TechnicolourSquirrel]

Why do Americans call the boy king "King Tut"? His full name was Tutankhamun (or Tutankhamen)! Is this name so hard to spell or pronounce? Tut makes him sound like some fifth rate Batman villain! Grrrrrr!

I'm afraid I must object to your use of this one-syllable colloquialism, 'Grrrrrr!' Would it have been so difficult to type 'This makes me very angry,' in proper English?

Re:The Irony

[sacrilicious]

If so many people had departed as suggested in the Bible, then many critical tasks would have gone undone or would have been performed poorly due to low staffing or unskilled workers performing the tasks in the place of the slaves. There are no records to indicate any such crisis to the KMT economy.

One of the tasks previously performed by the slaves was that of record-keeping.