At the weekend I watched, with great enjoyment, the programme about Tut-ankh-amun, Akhenaton and Nefertiti. During the programme, 2 female mummies were examined, with the thought that one of them was Nefertiti. Joanna Fletcher (in Nefertiti Revealed) claimed that the younger of the two mummies was Nefertiti and showed evidence to prove it. In the programme on Sunday, Dr Zahi Hawass stated that the mummy identified but Joanna Fletcher was NOT Nefertiti. Surely if he wanted to prove beyond all shadow of doubt that it was not Nefertiti, he should undertake a Mitocondrial DNA test. This can be done using the two premature baby mummies that were in Tut-ankh-amuns tomb. Mitocondrial DNA is passed between a mother and her children, it is a specific DNA strand which should link directly to Nefertiti ... Nefertiti being the mother of Tut-ankh-amuns wife and the grandmother of the two babies. Would it not be possible for Discovery to test this theory out.

Having also watched the program it was interesting to see, how much of what Dr Joann Fletcher's team had concluded earlier was confirmed by Dr Hawass, depite him earlier stating in interviews that the mummy in question was a teenage girl and on another occasion that it was a man.
Also I felt the evidence to show that the bent right arm not belonging to the mummy was skimmed over. Having revisited Dr Stephen Buckley's findings from the "Fletcher" team that the straight arm is not mummified in the same manner and is also 2cms too long to belong to the mummy, he concluded that the right arm is mumified in the same manner as the rest of the body and is of the right proprtions. I feel that Dr Hawass seems to want to disprove this theory too much, without offering all the evidence to do so.

Oh yer i saw that, it is a amazng speciman

As I understand the rules in Egypt, anyone who discovers anything while under licence from the supreme council of antiquities has to declare their findings to the concil first who will then decide how, when and by whom it is released to the public, a case in point is the discovery of the funery cache next to Tutankhamuns tomb "last year" the discovery happened a lot earlier but the dept of antiquities sat on the information, till they decided it could be released, and a TV special could star Dr Hawass.....
Dr Joanne Fletcher did not release her findings to the council...but went straight to air in the Discovery special, and therefore denied Dr Hawass of yet another "Discovery" and photo opportunity.....as a result Dr Fletcher is now banned from egypt and Dr hawass takes every opportunity to discredit the theory and the York team, without any convincing evidence to prove that it is not Nefertiti. It just seems to be sour grapes, and the Egyptology community closes ranks out of jealousy or fear that to openly disagree with Dr Hawass might harm their careers