ramblings and things
The wonders of modern science
Have solved many a mystery
Particularly when it comes to
The subject of ancient history.
When Howard Carter
Very luckily found
Young Kind Tut’s tomb
Buried deep under ground
The world’s knowledge
Moved on so much
Because that tomb
Was largely untouched.
After many years solid work
Advances in genetics and DNA
Soon made it possible for
Science to definitely say
The ancient Egyptions
Seemed to think it best
To keep the bloodline pure
By routine indulgence in incest.
In King Tut’s case this
Opened the genetic carbuncle
That his mother and his father
Also were his Aunt and Uncle.
Doomed to die young of
Inherited genetic mutation
He was hurriedly buried
By a doomed Egyptian nation.
Would history have changed if
They’d said, Hey now Mister
When it comes to procreation
Don't make love to your sister;
To be that close
In a breeding lark
May create offspring
That glow in the dark.
Maybe that’s one reason why
Egypt once, in a time so remote,
A civilisation of repute and power,
Became just an historical footnote.
But the pyramids
Still proudly stand,
Fitting memoral to
That once proud land.
Egypt