Tut and his family were DNA tested and were Sub saharan African

Um, with all due respect, a.you simply did not understand the "jargon" and b.how papers with multiple authors are written or c. the politics of Egyptian archeology at the time and d.the long history of distorting the history of Ancient Egypt.

I will discuss each point:

a. The "jargon":

If you read the actual paper in JAMA, you would see in the results section that they printed a long paragraph about methodology and it states they used the STR method in their DNA testing.

They published a table with the actual STR's of the mummies tested. It is a large table with all the names of the tested pharohs, queens,etc.

If you have 8 STR's you can run the results in various computer models and get an analysis of what populations share these STR's.

The STR's of the Amarna pharohs and of Ramses III had the most STR's in common with the Great Lakes peoples of Africa(Central Africa) on multiple computer models by various other scientists including the most famous one published by DNAtribes--a company that specializes in STR and DNA analysis.

In the British Medical journal article on Ramses III, they also published his Y chromosome information in addition to his STR's. His STR data was similar to the Amarna pharohs and his Y chromosome also was a subclade that is Subsaharan African.

b. and c. Why were these conclusions not also published? how did archeology infighting affect the info?

The research in both papers was done primarily by Dr. Zink--world wide authority on ancient DNA. However, to get access to the royal mummies, Zink had to include Dr. Hawass--then head of Antiquities in Egypt on the paper and Hawass got to decide the emphasis of the paper when published.

Hawass has a long history of denying any African origin of the Ancient Egyptians and his is a minority opinion among modern archeologists and he is controversial even among his fellow Egyptian archeologists on this point. Hawass was particularly criticised when he was promoting the National Geographic "CT reconstruction" of TUT--the reconstruction was denounced by many of his own department underlings as trying to make Tut appear non African and later Hawass himself repudiated the reconstruction in print as not looking like Tut.

Hawass was (and probably still is as he is making a comeback after corruption charges) very focused on getting tourism dollars and TV shows from the US and Europe and it has been alleged that Hawass is of the opinion that Black pharohs are bad for business among white tourists and TV interests.

Please note that after Ramses III was tested, Hawass revoked the right to DNA test any of the other royal mummies.

Hawass was successful in burying the DNA info and publishing different conclusions in the papers and when the STR analysis was studied in academic circles, many began to attack Zink,etc(see d. as to why). These critics succeeded in trying to make people question the STR data. They were able to "muddy the waters"ie--tried to obsfucate a scientific conclusion.

However, in the case of Ramses III, Zink succeeded in getting the Y chromosome data included in the results as well. The Y chromosome, which is passed unaltered from father to son was particularly damaging because it confirmed the STR data and the Y chromosome has further implications in DNA analysis. The Y chromosome is a record of the male lineage as it is unchanged from father to son and this means that Ramses III's male ancestors were also Subsaharan. Ie, if confirms not just Ramses but a whole line of royal males in his dynasty was Subsaharan.

Faced with this becoming publicized,all further DNA testing on the royal mummies was stopped.

d.there has been a long history of trying to distort and co-opt Ancient Egypt as a white European culture. This is because the Ancient Egyptians were so great and they predated the Greeks and Romans. The rediscovery of Ancient Egypt occurred during the time of Napoleon and this was also a time when African people were being enslaved and colonized all over the world. To admit that one of the greatest of the ancient cultures had Black and Brown people as rulers at a time period when Europe was uncivilized would have debunked white supremacy. Therefore any indication that the Ancient Egyptians were dark skinned Africans was suppressed in art, books, academia, and later TV and films. National Geographic has been one of the most persistent of the promoters of this false image-- even famously posting photos of snow white pharohs,etc. Look at the Ten Commandments by De Mille. The King Tut song by Steve Martin( "he's my favorite honky...").

This pictorial promotion of a historical falsehood--a white ruled Egypt before Alexander the great-- has been taught for years and years in the US and Europe and is still prevalent today.

If the DNA results were widely publicized to the general public, it would be the end of the whites ruled Egypt falsehood.

Anyone who compares us merry men with the monkeys that live below us are insensitive to our heritage.