The 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Man Found In A Tomb — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Unexpected Ancestry
But the first data point is important.
It has been established.
It is real.
And it tells us that the man buried in a ceramic vessel in a hillside tomb at Nuwayrat, in the age of the first pyramids, was connected — in his blood, though he could not have known it — to the human world that surrounded Egypt on every side.
The Year 2025 And What It Made Possible
The NUE001 paper was published on July 2, 2025.