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First Royal Mummy Found Since Tut is Identified

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the ancient-grills dept.

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.'"

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  1. Oh baby... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    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...
    1. Re:Oh baby... by Forge · · Score: 3, Funny

      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.

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  2. The Irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?"

    1. Re:The Irony by It+doesn't+come+easy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ironically, I agree with you.

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    2. Re:The Irony by sayfawa · · Score: 5, Funny

      The fools. They should have had their slaves build something like this.

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    3. Re:The Irony by IDontAgreeWithYou · · Score: 5, Funny

      Even more ironically I agree with you.

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    4. Re:The Irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      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?

    5. Re:The Irony by ari_j · · Score: 3, Funny

      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.

    6. Re:The Irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      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.

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    7. Re:The Irony by sacrilicious · · Score: 3, Funny
      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.

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  3. Queen Sut by Jozxyqk · · Score: 3, Funny

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

    1. Re:Queen Sut by Gaspo · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  4. Re:Inscription by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  5. I have a 98% similarity in DNA... by Short+Circuit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can I get my inheritance, now?

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  6. Re:Inscription by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  7. Re:Hold your horses, buddy by smaddox · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  8. Re:Modern day descendants by Comboman · · Score: 1, Funny
    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.

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  9. Re:King Tut? by TechnicolourSquirrel · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?