We've got the same mummy! Up to 70% of British men are 'related' to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun

• Swiss company reconstructs King Tut's DNA profile from Discovery Channel documentary
• Results show he belonged to 'haplogroup' common to half of Western European men
• Claims disputed by fellow geneticists

A Swiss genetics company has claimed that up to 70 per cent of British men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, say they have reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh 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 per cent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor.

 

Any resemblance? Geneticists claim 70 per cent of British men are related to King Tutankhamun, pictured left as a reconstruction, and right, his sarcophagus

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