Friday, October 16, 2020

the funny thing about this is that nefertiti's son - tutankhamen - has been tested, and it turns out he was celtic, in the male line. well - today, we would call him celtic. given the time frames, i think it makes more sense to suggest he may have been hittite (a pre-greek indo-european culture that set up in asia minor).

it's not impossible that nefertiti was egyptian, and her husband (akhenaton) was celtic. but, even nefertiti, if not her pseudonym neferneferuaten, is strangely indo-european in phonetics. i mean, that looks flatly german, doesn't it? further, tutankhamen has also been shown to have been inbred, indicating that his mother would have been closely related to his father. so, if his father was r1*, his mother would have been of similar ancestry.

the bust really may be better left in germany - this woman was phenotypically and genotypically european.