Did they have the sickle cell or was the amount of melanin in their skin too high? I'm just trying to understand. I really don't care what race they were. They were overrun by Arab scum at some point. Not that all Arabs are scum, but it was sad ending to that culture.
Tut did have sickle cell among other ailments. Funny thing is they were from exactly where they said they were from. The Great Lakes region of Africa.
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That's ridiculous. Tutankhamen did not have sickel cell. He died as healthy as someone that inbred could be. For years it was believed that he was murdered. Possibly by an uncle or the vizier that married Tut's wife. Advanced forensic techniques agree that it was most probably a chariot crash.
One German scientist said that Tut may have died of sickel cell anemia which would have been remarkable since the first recorded case of that disease in Egypt did not occur until 1951.