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What DNA Revealed About KING TUT’s Family Tree Rewrote Egypt’s Biggest Mystery

For 3,300 years, King Tut’s story had a giant missing page: *who exactly were his parents—and why did his bloodline seem to “end” so fast?* Then scientists combined *CT scans* with *DNA profiling* across a set of royal mummies… and the results didn’t just add names to the family tree. They changed how we understand the entire **Amarna dynasty**—Akhenaten’s era, the power vacuum after it, and the “erased” people Egypt’s records tried to forget. ([jamanetwork.com][1]) In this video, we follow the breakthrough pedigree that linked Tutankhamun to two specific mummies: the *KV55 male* and the mysterious **“Younger Lady” (KV35YL)**—identified as his parents in the 2010 genetic study. That conclusion implies something even darker: Tut’s parents were likely **full siblings**, a level of close-royal endogamy that can amplify inherited problems across generations. ([PubMed][2]) And the DNA wasn’t the only shock. The same research team argued Tut’s death wasn’t a clean “murder mystery” at all, but a collision of health crises—bone and foot problems seen on imaging, plus evidence consistent with **malaria infection**—turning the boy king into a tragic case study of what royal bloodlines were really costing Egypt. ([PubMed][2]) We’ll also look at the two tiny mummies buried in Tut’s tomb—often discussed as potential stillborn daughters—and what genetic work suggested about that final, heartbreaking thread of the line. ([National Geographic][3]) Finally, we’ll cover the controversy: ancient-DNA work on Egyptian mummies is notoriously difficult, and critics challenged parts of the 2010 conclusions (contamination risk, degradation, and identity/age debates—especially around KV55). So we separate what’s strongly supported from what remains debated. ([jamanetwork.com][4]) --- Sources (for the video) Hawass, Z. et al. (2010). *“Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun’s Family.”* *JAMA*. ([jamanetwork.com][1]) Lorenzen, E.D. & Willerslev, E. (2010). *“King Tutankhamun’s Family and Demise”* (Letter/critique). *JAMA*. ([jamanetwork.com][4]) Marchant, J. (2011). *“Ancient DNA: Curse of the Pharaoh’s DNA.”* Nature (News Feature on the mummy-DNA dispute). ([Nature][5]) National Geographic (2010). *“King Tut Was Disabled, Malarial, and Inbred, DNA Shows.”* ([National Geographic][3]) Scientific American (2010). *“Tutankhamen’s Familial DNA Tells Tale…”* ([Scientific American][6]) Habicht, M.E. et al. (2016). *“Identifications of ancient Egyptian royal mummies from the 18th Dynasty reconsidered.”* *American Journal of Physical Anthropology*. ([PubMed][7]) (Optional context on how the 2010 pedigree is interpreted today) Oxford Academic chapter (2022): *“Tutankhamun’s Family Tree.”* ([academic.oup.com][8]) [1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama... "Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family" [2]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20159... "Ancestry and pathology in King Tutankhamun's family" [3]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/cu... "King Tut Was Disabled, Malarial, and Inbred, DNA Shows" [4]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama... "King Tutankhamun's Family and Demise" [5]: https://www.nature.com/news/2011/1104... "PHARAOH'S DNA" [6]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... "Tutankhamen's Familial DNA Tells Tale of Boy Pharaoh's ..." [7]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26808... "Identifications of ancient Egyptian royal mummies from the ..." [8]: https://academic.oup.com/book/44685/c... "10 Tutankhamun's Family Tree - Oxford Academic"