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I have done my own work and found the Tut was son of KV55, who is either of two possibilities: if the skull is old, it is likely that of Akhenaten, however there are Forensic examiners who independently claim the skull is young and if so would therefore be Smenkhkare, youngest son of Queen Tiye, the mother of KV35YL. Secondly: If Kiya's image was replaced in the Amarna Sunshade with that of Merytaten, they were equals where KV35YL must then be Kiya as all possible attending attributes coincide. - Robert Cole 2600:6C8A:7000:35:315E:C619:218D:500E (talk) 19:17, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

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In 2024, based on archaeological and scientific evidence the Egyptologist Martin Bommas identified the father of Tutankhamun as Smenkhkare and his mother as Beketaten, The Younger Lady . 196.150.203.108 (talk) 11:22, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

 Not done, yet. Your source is simply a list of Bommas' publications. I see that he has a book out about Tutankhamun (apparently so recent it's not listed on that page), but I can't access the book to see where he comments on Tutankhamun's parentage. Can you provide a page number? A. Parrot (talk) 15:32, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

I did some digging and managed to find the page on the Google Books preview - page 96. Merytat3n (talk) 21:03, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for finding that. With some reshuffling of sources, I've added Beketaten as a candidate, though given how fraught the evidence is, I just listed her as a possibility instead of devoting a whole sentence to Bommas' interpretation. A. Parrot (talk) 23:24, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

1. "Martin Bommas | Macquarie University - Academia.edu". mq.academia.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-28.

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