Joel is Cool

oh, great. just what we needed.

asshole scientists, using forensic archeology, determine that king tut was actually an inbred, malarial gimp. thanks, guys.

indeed, the most famous pharaoh of the most famous empire of the ancient world wasn’t so glimmering and grand. From the article: “He was not a very strong pharaoh. He was not riding the chariots,” said study team member Carsten Pusch, a geneticist at Germany’s University of Tübingen. “Picture instead a frail, weak boy who had a bit of a club foot and who needed a cane to walk.”

in other news, nothing is awesome.