Well, let's get the Tut news out of the way first…

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Science, recherche et technologie
le 16 février 2010

THIS JUST IN The LA Times covers the basic information thoroughly, if not terribly critically (not many people are doing that, by the way). So, he died of broken leg and malaria; we have some relatives identified with DNA. In the Times Online, Tutankhamun is said to be “the product of an incestuous relationship that may have led to a weakened constitution and his early death…a sickly teenager with a club foot who probably died of complications related to malaria.” A university parasitologist is quoted disagreeing about the malaria bit. The “incestuous” label matches with a Tut family tree on the Discovery website, which indicates the mummies claimed to be his father and mother were blood relations. [...]


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