Quotes of the Day

Friday, Feb. 19, 2010

Open quoteI really believe that the reason for the deformities and the weakness in the bones came because Akhenaten, [King Tut's] father, married his full sister.Close quote

  • ZAHI HAWASS,
  • Egypt's senior archaeologist and co-author of a recent study on Egyptian pharaoh King Tutankhamen's mummy that discovered that the king was born with a cleft palate and clubfoot
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