I've always thought his theories on the Nefertiti mummy to be at least a biased as Joanne Fletcher's but whatever. I'm taking this story with a grain of salt, but at the very least he did a DNA test! Yep. That's right. Zahi did a DNA test. (I still think the mummy is Meritaten. It even LOOKS like a girl to me, but whatever. If the results really WERE definate that the mummy's a man, you'd think they'd have more publicity, plus all the earlier medical examiners said that it's a woman.). Read the whole stink right here: http://www.cbc.ca/disclosure/archives/0 ... /test.html

thats awesome that he did a DNA test, i dont have time to read it rightnow but when i do i will type about it later!

If the DNA testing said it was a male does that mean that it is 100% sure the mummies a male. I thought the mummy was Meriaten or one of Nefertiti's younger daughters, but if it's a male then that is impossible. Does anyone know how acurate DNA testing is in telling the gender of a mummy??

i'm not going there.

can't one tell by the width of the hips? though akhenaten, being a marfan's guy and frequently shown with a feminine physique because of his deformatory disease...i'm sure it's a bit more difficult to tell. the skull is the obvious part when identifying that part of the 18th dynasty.

perhaps the marfan's is what is making the female/male thing so hard to tell.

usually length of the femur (?) and width of the hips is anthropologically how they can tell the gender.