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DNA Tests Set for Baby Girls in King Tut's Tomb

Was mummy a daddy?

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 7, 2008 2:53 AM CDT

(Newser) – The 3,000-year-old mummified remains of two stillborn baby girls found in King Tutankhamun's tomb will undergo DNA testing to dermine their relationship to Egypt's famous boy king and Queen Nefertiti. The babies' remains were discovered in Tut's tomb in 1922 but never publicly displayed,...   Read full story »

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