{"id":424413,"date":"2010-03-13T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-3717831869502748598"},"modified":"2010-03-13T08:37:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T12:37:19","slug":"more-re-tutankhamun-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/424413","title":{"rendered":"More re Tutankhamun DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory?id=10074330\">ABC News International<\/a> (Paul Schemm)<\/p>\n<p>Four page story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>Now experts are planning more tests to uncover further details about Akhenaten&#8217;s royal family. The new attention could also give a push to a planned new Akhenaten museum that will showcase his mummy near Amarna, his capital midway down the Nile in what is now the province of Minya, 135 miles (220 kilometers) south of Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>In one tantalizing discovery, the testing established that another unidentified mummy was Akhenaten&#8217;s sister, that he fathered Tutankhamun with her and that she appears to have died from violence with blows to her face and head.<\/p>\n<p>Still elusive is Nefertiti, the chief wife of Akhenaten famed for her beauty. Egypt&#8217;s antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, has said one of his goals is to track down her mummy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Amarna period is like an unfinished play,&#8221; Hawass said at the February press conference announcing the new discoveries. &#8220;We know its beginning but have never succeeded in discovering its end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-3717831869502748598?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News International (Paul Schemm) Four page story. Now experts are planning more tests to uncover further details about Akhenaten&#8217;s royal family. The new attention could also give a push to a planned new Akhenaten museum that will showcase his mummy near Amarna, his capital midway down the Nile in what is now the province [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}