The Silver Pharaoh, DNA test

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When the Tanis tomb of the Silver Pharaoh was opened in 1940 by Pierre Montet, it was found to hold a magnificent silver coffin containing the mummy of a pharaoh identified as Psusennes I of the Egyptian 21st Dynasty. When opened the coffin contained the mummy of an elderly man who had clearly suffered from severe arthritis in his old age; Manetho gives Psusennes I a reign length of either 41 or 46 years. As his body clearly survived, it should be possible to establish this pharaoh’s DNA if it has not already been done.

In my unpublished C & C Workshop paper, Egypt in the 10th World Age, I identified the Silver Pharaoh as the probably posthumously born son of Siptah, the crippled child of Queen Tausret, who was still a teenager when he died. Tausret ruled as Siptah’s regent for possibly half his reign and probably as pharaoh herself for a year or 2 after his early death. Siptah was buried in KV47 in the Valley of the Kings, but was moved to KV 35 where his mummy was found in 1898. Consequently, Siptah’s DNA is also available if not already determined.

A comparison of the DNA of these 2 pharaohs should establish if my theory about their relationship is correct. If it is, it would not prove my catastrophe analysis and my catastrophe chronologies are correct, but it would require a major rethink of conventional ideas about both the chronology of the, so-called, Egyptian Third Intermediate Period, and its duration.