Once you've finished shuddering with disgust, here's what researchers know about the boy king and his family. His father was almost definitely Akhenaten, who preceded Tut as pharaoh in the fourteenth century BC. The identity of his mother is pretty much unknown, but recent DNA samples from his and other mummies have revealed that she was probably one of Akhenaten's sisters.
King Tut was rather frail and suffered from a bone disorder, perhaps due to his parentage. Incestuous relationships, though, weren't out of the ordinary in ancient Egypt, a fact which is not exactly reassuring. Despite Tut's health issues, and his short life even by the standards back then (he died at 19), he's gone down in history as one of Egypt's most famous and wealthiest pharaohs.
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