King Tutankhamun Has DNA That Doesn't Match Any Living Human On Earth

King Tutankhamun Has DNA That Doesn't Match Any Living Human On Earth The oldest mummies in Egypt have been sitting in museum rooms for over a century with their faces, hair and features still completely intact, and for all that time scholars argued loudly about who these people were based entirely on what they could see. Nobody thought to ask what the biology actually said. When they finally sequenced the DNA the answer came back as something nobody had predicted and that no existing theory could cleanly account for. Not modern Egyptians. Not sub-Saharan Africans. Not any population that current genetic databases can properly explain. The mummies of Yuya, Queen Tiye, Ramses the Great, people who sat at the absolute centre of ancient Egyptian power, are carrying a genetic signature that has effectively forced researchers to tear up a century's worth of assumptions about who the ancient Egyptians actually were and where they came from. This is one of those topics that has generated enormous amounts of heat and very little light for decades, and what the DNA revealed is considerably stranger and more interesting than any side in that argument was prepared for.