DNA discovery reveals genetic history of ancient Egyptians

DNA discovery reveals genetic history of ancient Egyptians

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Publishing its findings in Nature Communications, the study concluded that preserved remains found in Abusir-el Meleq, Middle Egypt, were closest genetic relatives of Neolithic and Bronze Age populations from the Near East, Anatolia and Eastern Mediterranean Europeans. Modern Egyptians, by comparison, share much more DNA with sub-Saharan populations.

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The team's findings do come with one obvious caveat: "All our genetic data (was) obtained from a single site in Middle Egypt and may not be representative for all of ancient Egypt," the paper concedes.

I am a bit surprised, I thought that Ancient Egypt would have had more inter-mixing with sub-Saharan populations from Nubia. I thought that modern Egyptians would have less sub-Saharan ancestry than ancient Egyptians, due to modern Egyptians being descendants of the Arab conquest of the region.

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