Its possible that you are a descendant from King Tut: A study reveals what country Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s descendants come from.

Are you male and come from Spain, UK or France? If so there is a chance you might be related to one of Egypt’s most enigmatic Pharaohs: Tutankhamun. Pharaoh Tutankhamun became the ruler of Egypt at the age of nine, something that remains a mystery for most historians. The enigmatic boy-king lived from approximately 1341BC to 1323BC ruling over the land of the Pharaohs from 1333BC until 1323BC. According to scholars his name, Tutankhamun roughly translates to “Living Image of Amun”.

It is one of the most interesting studies we have seen in a while. A group of Swiss scientists, experts in genetics have found out that seventy percent of Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s descendants would not be found in Egypt, but elsewhere. The team of experts at Zurich based iGENEA, one of the most renowned centers for genetics in the world, managed to rebuild the genetic profile of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt more than 3000 years ago, discovering that he belonged to the haplogroup R1b1a2 which is the same group that share more than half of European men in Western Europe. It remains a mystery for geneticists how Tutankhamun’s paternal lineage came to Egypt from its region of origin.

How cool is that?

According to the Swiss genetics company, it is believed that the earliest migration of haplogroup R1b1a2 into Europe began sometime around 7000BC with the spread of agriculture. According to writings at iGENEA’s website, in Egypt the contingent of this haplogroup is below 1% and partially caused by european immigration during the last 2.000 years.

As if that wasn’t enough, researchers have more curious details. They suggest the most curious case was that of the Spanish and British whose proportion of men that share the same haplogroup rises to a staggering seventy percent.

‘It was very interesting to discover that he belonged to a genetic group in Europe – there were many possible groups in Egypt that the DNA could have belonged to,’ said Roman Scholz, director of the iGENEA Centre. Interestingly around 70 % of Spanish and a 60 % of French men belong to the genetic group of King Tut, one of the most enigmatic rulers of ancient Egypt.

‘We think the common ancestor lived in the Caucasus about 9,500 years ago,’ said Scholz.

However, the results from the Swiss company have been criticized by numerous scientists around the world, among them Carsten Push who is a geneticist at Germany’s Tubingen University. Push was part of the team that actually constructed King Tut’s DNA from samples of mummified remains and his relatives.

Push claims that iGENEA’s claims are anything but possible since they failed to publish the data belonging to Tut’s Y-Chromosome, found only in males. This is of extreme importance since said chromosome would reveal his male descendants.

iGENEA reconstructed the DNA profile of Tutankhamun based on a film produced by the Discovery Channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-l6DkOaqBI

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Mysterious Ancient Geoglyphs in Kazakhstan could be the ultimate evidence of an 8,000 year old civilization that went unnoticed until now.

NASA has released the first high-resolution satellite images of some of the figures from an altitude of around 400 miles. The images of the area will help uncover other potentially hidden geoglyphs that went unnoticed previously.

Thanks to images from Space, another incredible ancient mystery has been revealed as satellite pictures of a deserted and remote area of Kazakhstan revealed giant geometric figures of squares, lines, crosses and circles, some of them approximately 200 meters in size, and only recognizable from the air. These are the ‘Nazca lines’ of Kazakhstan. Even though the discovery was made some eight years ago thanks to popular software ‘Google Earth’ when Russian archaeologist Dmitriy Dey found them, since then, several experts in the field have helped expand the research into these mysterious geometric figures. There are over 260 geoglyphs that have been discovered so far with the oldest one being around 8,000 years old, and most of them can be found near a Neolithic village of the area. The largest of them is a giant square composed of 101 raised mounds.

The gigantic square’s corners are connected by a cross that runs diagonally across the geoglyph and its area covers more terrain than the Great Pyramid of Cheops according to researchers and writing from the New York Times. But there are over 200 other geoglyphs that went previously unnoticed and would remain a mystery if it wasn’t for satellite images and archaeological interest.

When Mr Dey found the mysterious shapes in 2007, when he identified the giant square, he first believed it to be the remains of some sort of Soviet installation, but in the following days he discovered more shapes and by the end of the year he had found dozens of mysterious shapes. That number today tops 260 and there could be more.

The mysterious formations were the subject of debate at the archaeological conference in Istanbul Turkey, these geometric figures are unique and unstudied earthworks of the Turgai region. Up until now, the so-called Steppe Geoglyphs are an enigmatic puzzle for archaeologist and the outside world.

“I’ve never seen anything like this: I found it remarkable,” said Compton J. tucker, who is a senior biospheric scientists for NASA in Washington.

While some researchers theorize that these mysterious figures were meant to be seen from the air just as the Nazca lines in Peru, Mr. Dey believes these incredible figures were not meant to be seen only from the air, dismissing any involvement from Aliens.

According to experts, in the distant past, the rich land of the steppe were a very attractive destination for Stone Age tribes and Mr Dey believes that the Mehadzhar culture, which flourished in the region from 7000 to 500 BC could be responsible for the largest and oldest figures of the so-called Steppe Geoglyphs. Scientists however find it very unlikely that a nomadic tribe would have stayed in the region that long in order to construct the figures.

According to an interview with the New York Times, Mr Dey theorized that the enigmatic figures may have been used to observe and follow the movements of the sun, a similar function to that of Stonehenge in the UK.

Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, an archaeologist from the Cambridge University believes that “enormous efforts” went into building these structures.

This only proves that ancient mankind was far more advanced that history gives credit, discoveries like this provides further insight into the lives and possibilities of ancient mankind. The Cambridge archaeologist is unsure whether these incredible figures should be referred to as Geoglyphs, since these tend to depict “Art’ rather than objects with function.

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There are things on the moon that you cannot explain no matter how well you try. The moon has been, without a doubt, one of the most mysterious and talked about places in our solar system directly connected with Extraterrestrial visitations, Secret Alien bases, Secret facilities and all kinds of weird stuff.

While some of the things can be reasonably explained, there are other details of the moon that remain an enigma even to the most skeptical of viewers.

While some of the things can be reasonably explained, there are other details of the moon that remain an enigma even to the most skeptical of viewers.

In this article we bring you 5 of our “most mysterious images” from Earth’s Moon.

The Pyramid on the Moon

Apollo 17 was the final mission of the United States’ Apollo lunar landing program also, it was the sixth landing of humans on the Moon. The mission was launched on December 7, 1972, with a three-member crew consisting of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. The Apollo 17 mission remains the most recent manned Moon landing. During the Apollo 17 mission this mysterious images was photographed. While there have been several theories about what it is, until today no one has been able to fully explain the mysterious pyramid-like structure that was photographed on the moon.

Triangle shaped UFO above the moon

Another very interesting image taken during the Apollo 17 mission. This image in particular taken by Apollo 17 Lunar Module pilot Harrison Schmitt, one of the last three men to walk on Earth’s natural satellite, shows a mysterious triangular-shaped UFO in the upper right part of the image. There is no question whether the image is real as it is an official NASA image which is found on their server together with hundreds of other images taken during the Apollo missions. The question is… what are we looking at here?

Humanoid Shadow on the Moon

Among the most interesting findings that have been made thanks to Google’s tools is without a doubt the mysterious shadow of a humanoid figure on the moon.

YouTube user Wowforreeel posted a video after finding a strange shadow of what appears to be a humanoid figure walking on the moon while using Google Earth. His YouTube channel is filled with mysterious findings just like this one, most of them do not seem to have a logical explanation.

To checkout the mysterious figure for yourself, head over to Google Earth / moon and find the following coordinates: 27 ° 34’26.35 “N 19 ° 36’4.75” W and there you fill find a mysterious shadow on the moon.  According to Wowforreeel, “It seems to be a massive shadow projected by “something” standing on the surface of the moon.”

Structures on the Moon in official NASA images

The big question a lot of people ask today is, “are governments around the world and their organizations covering up information on Extraterrestrial life?” According to these images and videos the answer is a big YES.

NASA’s LCROSS mission in which they “Nuked” the moon that took place in 2009 was only for “scientific purposes”, but there are some that claim that this “declaration of war” on the Moon was not as scientific as many believed it to be and the images and videos we show here seem to back up the claims. The main LCROSS mission objective was to explore the presence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. It was launched together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on June 18, 2009, as part of the shared Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, the first American mission to the Moon in over ten years.

The mysterious disc shaped object

The object seen in this Apollo mission image is surely one of the best examples of “Alien ships” according to Ufologists. What are we looking at here? At first glance it loss like a classical flying saucer. While there have been several theories as to what the object is, the truth is that we can only continue and guess about the mysterious origin of the flying saucer that is seen ‘shadowing’ the US astronauts.

Djedefre was the pharaoh who ruled over Egypt around 2556 BC, and during his reign, almost five millennia ago, he built the tallest and most incredible pyramid, even greater than the ones which were constructed on the shores of the River Nile.

An international team of archaeologists has discovered that the ruins that can be seen today in Abu Rawash, a few kilometers from Cairo, correspond to the so-called lost pyramid, whose megalithic stones have uncovered many of the legends that have surrounded the reign of Cheops.

Djedefre was the son and immediate throne successor of Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza; his mother remains a mystery for archaeologists and historians.

This is the lost forth Pyramid and it was one of the wonders of ancient Egypt, its magnificence made the three pyramids of the Giza plateau look like toys. This “lost” pyramid was the highest of all the Giza complex [Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure] and its stone was of much better quality as well. For years it was thought that these remains were just those of an unfinished construction. According to Zahi Hawass: “we found that it was not the case as its stones were used for numerous constructions in Cairo.

“During the past 12 years we have dug at the site, we have brought to light much of the history of the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, showing struggles for power and unraveling the mystery of the construction of the pyramids,” he added.

The remains of the pyramid of Djedefre today rise barely over 10 meters above the ground. The remains of this, once great Pyramid are located on a hill-top in Abu Rawash, a militarized and restricted area, located around the parched desert, that in the background displays an impressive black cloud of the polluted air of Cairo. A view that was very different thousands of years ago when Djedefre’s pyramid stood tall against the desert. You can easily make out the three majestic pyramids of the Giza plateau from where the “greater” pyramid of Djedefre once stood. Archaeologists believe that even though this ancient Pyramid was relatively close to the other three pyramids, they never shared a connection.

Hawass believes the son of Cheops chose this place, at some distance from Giza, because he wanted an independent resting place which he marked by the placement of his majestic pyramid, but also because the site were the pyramid was enacted, would place his construction much closer to the sun and the sun God.

According to the latest research, archaeologists believe that Djedefre’s pyramid was at least 7.62 meters higher than that of Cheops, which has 146 meters and each of the faces of the pyramid, at its base, measured 122 meters while having a tilt angle of 64 degrees. The pyramid was built with limestone and red granite that originated from Aswan, 800 miles away on the Nile. Using a hard dolerite stone, the blocks of stone were precisely shaped using a saw made out of copper and quartz. Each of the pieces used for the construction of the majestic pyramid could weigh up to 25 tons and archaeologists believe that up to 370 people were needed to move it.

Archaeologists estimate that most of the 15,000 people who arrived to the construction site in the eight years of the construction were farmers who worked on the construction process when the Nile River was flooded, preventing them to work on their crops.

An opening on the surface, marks what was the passage down to the underground chamber, now exposed to the outdoors, it helped verify that mortar was used in the first phase of construction to consolidate the inside of the chamber where the Pharaoh would rest in his journey to the afterlife. The outside floor is littered with fragments of small vessels which are believed to have been used to bring offerings to Djedefre.

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