This is, in a broad sense, how complex civilizations have always formed.

They are not created in isolation.

They draw on the people, ideas, technologies, and materials of multiple sources, integrating them into something new.

Ancient Egypt integrated African, Near Eastern, and Levantine elements into a civilization that was fundamentally African in its character and expression.

The genetic evidence from NUE001 is one data point in that story — the first molecular evidence from the formative period of Egyptian civilization.

It will be followed by more data points, from more individuals, from more sites and periods, building a picture of how Egyptian populations were constituted and how they changed across time.