The 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Man Found In A Tomb — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Unexpected Ancestry

One person’s DNA — a tooth in a Liverpool museum — opened a new window into that history.

The window is open.

More is still to come.

The Abusir el-Meleq Comparison: What Came Before And Why It Wasn’t Enough

Before NUE001, the only ancient genomic data from Egypt came from a site called Abusir el-Meleq — and understanding why that data was insufficient for the questions researchers most wanted to answer clarifies just how significant the NUE001 result is.

Abusir el-Meleq is a site in Middle Egypt, southeast of the Beni Suef Governorate, known primarily as a cemetery used from at least the New Kingdom through the Roman period.