If we measure the importance of the pharaohs of Egypt by the size of their tombs, which does not seem a bad criterion, Tutankhamun It would be one of the bunch. The thing changes if when they discover your tomb, back in 1922, it is intact and becomes a source of fundamental information that allows expanding the knowledge of the Egyptian civilization. And I won't even tell you, if someone, and I say someone because I don't know who, says that there is a curse that will fall on whoever "dares to awaken the eternal sleep of the pharaoh." The deaths related to this desecration, such as the meigas, “there are, there are ”, because several people who in one way or another were related to said finding died in a relatively short space of time, but nobody knows where the curse is. And now that we have located the protagonist of this story, what do you think if I tell you that there are more possibilities that Tutankhamun is your ancestor if you were born in Spain than if you were born in Egypt?
In 2009, and thanks to the TV channel Discovery Channel, the DNA genealogical center iGENEA was able to reconstruct the DNA profile of Tutankhamun, his father Akhenaten and his grandfather Amenhotep III. The surprising results showed that Tutankhamun belonged to a genetic profile known as haplogroup R1b1a2 , to which more than 50 percent of all men in Western Europe belong... and 70 percent of Spaniards . Paradoxically, among modern Egyptians this haplogroup constitutes less than 1 percent. Haplogroup R1b1a2 has its origin in the region bordering the Black Sea approximately 9,500 years ago, and the migration of this group towards Europe took place at the earliest in 7000 BC. due to agricultural expansion. However, it is unclear to geneticists how the lineage came to Egypt from its region of origin.
The same genealogical center confirms that the Basques have a different haplogroup than their neighbors. So, those who defend the theory of a Basque race, genetically speaking, that would make them different, are just as right. Of course, neither better nor worse.