Jeremy Gutsche
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Scientists in Cairo are carrying out DNA tests on King Tut and two tiny fetuses. These tests will determine whether or not the fetuses are King Tut’s babies. King Tutankhamun’s parental tests are part of a larger DNA testing program. The program will help to link hundreds of mummies and unravel dozens of Egyptian mysteries. And you thought Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s babies were a big deal! The two fetuses, five and seven months old, were discovered in King Tut’s Luxor tomb in 1922. BTW, recreated King Tut images shown are from National Geographic’s special on ‘King Tut’s New Face’  Many experts believe that Tut is the son of Akhenaten, the 18th Dynasty pharaoh who tried to introduce monotheism to ancient Egypt, and Kiya, one of Akhenaten's queens.
Scholars believe that at age 12, Tut married Ankhesenamun - a daughter of Akhenaten by his better-known wife, Nefertiti - but that the couple had no surviving children. There has been no archaeological evidence that Tut, who died around age 19... left any offspring.
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