Here is the article where the arabs are claiming to have found Hatshepsut's mummy. They say that they confirmed that it was her mummy with DNA testing.

How in the heck could they confirm it is her through DNA? Whose DNA did they use to compare it to? And wouldn't they need something else that also had her DNA to compare it against?

Mystery mummy is female pharoah
Story Highlights• Egypt uses DNA to confirm mummy is pharaoh queen
• Mummy was found more than a century ago
• Hatshepsut ruled as pharoah and dressed as a man


CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Egyptian authorities using DNA analysis and a tooth identified Wednesday a mummy found a century ago as the remains of pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut.

The mummy was discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings burial ground in 1903, but had not been identified as that of the queen and was left on site until two months ago when it was brought to the Cairo Museum for testing, said Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass.

"We are one hundred percent certain" the mummy belongs to Hatshepsut, Hawass told The Associated Press.

He said DNA and other scientific testing of a tooth found in a relic box containing some of the missing queen's organs had allowed Egyptologists to confirm that the unidentified mummy was in fact Hatshepsut.

A woman monarch who called herself a pharaoh and dressed like a man, Hatshepsut ruled over Egypt during the 15th century B.C.

During her famed 18th Dynasty rule, she wielded more power than Cleopatra or Nefertiti. But when her rule ended, all traces of her mysteriously disappeared, including her mummy.

Another mummy, which had been in the Cairo Museum for decades and was long believed to be the queen's wet nurse was initially investigated as possibly being Hatshepsut herself.

But Hawass said Wednesday that a different mummy brought back to Cairo two months ago was in fact identified as the pharaoh queen.

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