An interesting commentary but far from a conclusion as any Historian or History buff knows, there is no ending to historical research. In this case I see a very promising beginning tainted by many outside what-ifs! Case in point is a comment on this page claiming the mummy was in fact a male because of DNA testing. Now my knowledge of DNA testing is that there are so many inherent problems, as to use DNA on ancient bodies as the last resort and decode the story from the clues around the site (which is also why if ANY item is moved it destroys major parts of the story and alters it because the item is now out of context; and this is another reason to out and out despise grave robbing and other looting of historical artifacts as it takes away from our joint human story), that said the DNA evidence is blotchy at best,plus based on modern statistics so to speak, but in ancient Egypt in the royal family there was a common practice called inbreeding that would significantly alter ANY such gender test-just look at the carvings of Akhenatan for example, we see clearly hermaphroditic traits on him in just about every seen depiction, and considering she was working on what information they could and/or were allowed to gather the conclusions she came to are understandable though not concrete. Plus she was banned from the site because she had 'broken the rules' according tho Dr.Hawass, who had apparently identified that same mummy not only as female but as a much older woman, though scientific research showed it to be a woman younger than 35 and therefor not the woman Dr.Hawass identified the mummy as being...I find it all to conveniently discouraging and in the realms of male 'acedamia' that is also something to consider. How could a team of experts who were on a blind study apparently get nearly everything wrong in a much controversial situation were more established 'scholars' were proved wrong, and one such scholar banned the young doctor investigating the issue? I hope we will get a chance to see more evidence and confirm if this really is the famous queen and discover her story.
