Minister of Culture Farouk Hosny announced that Egypt's top antiquities body started a scientific project to study two mummified fetuses which have been stored at the Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine since their discovery in Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 on Luxor's west bank. The study aims at identifying the mummy of Queen Nefertiti, the wife of the monotheist king Akhenaton.

The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) will start the project in cooperation with the Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine.

Zahi Hawwas, the SCA Secretary General, said the study include DNA tests for two fetuses whose are ages around 5 or 7 months and carry out a CT scan for the first time by an Egyptian scientific teamwork pointing out that the results will help in identifying the family of King Tutankhamun, particularly his parents.


Meanwhile, Hawwas signed a scientific agreement with Ahmed Sameh, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, to establish Egypt's second ever DNA lab at the faculty.