King Tut a European Bro

There is plenty of indication of Hittite involvement with the Pharonic family and this would explain the DNA results alone.  As well I also suspect that the original deltaic state was a key Atlantean colony as well in order to dominate and control the Suez Canal or its equivalent.  For that reason a large population of Europeans would also have been established there as well.

We know little of the early Atlantean empire except to say at appeared spontaneously in the archeological record about 2400 BC on a global basis.  The prehistory was thus a local affair somewhere else and consisted of the establishment of trade factories at best.  The global emergence saw massive global building that is becoming much clearer and is plausibly linked to an unusual Bronze Age technology that harnessed the Earth’s natural frequencies.

What it meant is that European led palace trade factories became a global phenomenon to market copper from the Great lakes in particular.

Half of European men share King Tut's DNA

By Alice Baghdjian

LONDON | Mon Aug 1, 2011 1:52pm EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/01/britain-tutankhamun-dna-idAFL3E7J135P20110801

Aug 1 (Reuters Life!) - Up to 70 percent of British men and half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland said.

Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh, who ascended the throne at the age of nine, his father Akhenaten and grandfather Amenhotep III, based on a film that was made for the Discovery Channel.

The results showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 percent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor.

Among modern-day Egyptians this haplogroup contingent is below 1 percent, according to iGENEA.

"It was very interesting to discover that he belonged to a genetic group in Europe -- there were many possible groups in Egypt that the DNA could have belonged to," said Roman Scholz, director of the iGENEA Centre.

Around 70 percent of Spanish and 60 percent of French men also belong to the genetic group of the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.

"We think the common ancestor lived in the Caucasus about 9,500 years ago," Scholz told Reuters.

It is estimated that the earliest migration of haplogroup R1b1a2 into Europe began with the spread of agriculture in 7,000 BC, according to iGENEA.

However, the geneticists were not sure how Tutankhamun's paternal lineage came to Egypt from its region of origin.

The centre is now using DNA testing to search for the closest living relatives of "King Tut".

"The offer has only been publicised for three days but we have already seen a lot of interest," Scholz told Reuters. (Edited by Paul Casciato)