At the risk of sounding like a broken record. Why don't the Egyptians use that new 5 million dollar DNA lab that I just read about to do DNA sequences on all the mummies. Aiming for both nuclear and mtDNA. The things they can recover now from DNA is astonishing. For instance I was reading in a little sidebar in the paper that scientists determined for a fact the origin of all cats came from a single species, and that cats "self-domesticated" themselves; Apparently as man became more civilized and centralized the rodent population followed right along becoming more centralized and larger and the smaller cat species followed the larger more centralized and concentrated food supply too. To make a long story short they've determined the long circuitous route to domestication. I keep wondering what secrets the mummies DNA hold. Or what's left of it.