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King Tut's Father ID'd in Stone Inscription

December 17, 2008

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An inscription on an ancient stone may have provided the answer to an old mystery:  who was King Tut's father?

"We can now say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten," Dr. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told me in an email interview.

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Picture: Rossella Lorenzi

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