King Tut: European Men's Long Lost Uncle?

Egypt's boy king shares the same DNA as most men in Western Europe.

If you're European, and a guy, you have a good chance of being a relative of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. Swiss researchers say that more than half of all Western European men, and as much as 70 per cent of British men, belong to the genetic haplogroup R1b1a2, a group that also claims Egypt's famed King Tut. Being a part of the same haplogroup means Tut and the lion's share of European men all share a common ancestor, although the researchers aren't quite sure how Tut ended up in Egypt while the bulk of the haplogroup wound up in France, Great Britain, and Spain. The geneticists are now trying to determine who might be the closest living relative of the pharaoh, who ascended to the throne as a boy and died in adolescence.