Well, I just thought it made fine material for a really bad pun. Couldn't resist. ;-) _______________________________ Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Yair Davidiy <britam@netvision.net.il>wrote: > At 01:24 AM 8/3/2011, you wrote: > > This news is welcome if only because it might arouse interest in the > subject > and lead to a rethink concerning ancestry. > > The Irish in the Middle Ages (e.g. in the court of Charlemagne) were > ascribed Egyptian origin!! > > Nevertheless we should be careful. > The examination of Tut may never have taken place but some other > event have been inserted for illustration purposes. > See on the net the lengthy correspondence that took place over this matter. > We do not know and the Egyptians are not saying. > They refuse to allow a re-examination. > Yair Davidiy > Jerusalem > Israel > [and according to the wonders of DNA possibly a descendant of Nial.] > > > >Bet you didn't expect your y-chromosome test would help you find your, > >um, *mummy > >*(sorry, couldn't help that). M-222... and just about everything else is > >Western Europe... is a subset of the group referenced below, of course. > >Half of European men share King Tut's DNA > > > >LONDON 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. > >http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFL3E7J135P20110801 > > R1b1c7 Research and Links: > > > >http://clanmaclochlainn.com/R1b1c7/ > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >DNA-R1B1C7-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > >signature database 6345 (20110802) __________ > > > >The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > > >http://www.eset.com > > R1b1c7 Research and Links: > > http://clanmaclochlainn.com/R1b1c7/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DNA-R1B1C7-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >