The 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Man Found In A Tomb — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Unexpected Ancestry
All of this happened.
Empires rose and fell.
Languages changed.
The gods of Egypt were superseded, forgotten, replaced.
The hieroglyphic script that had expressed the Egyptian language for three thousand years was lost and not recovered until the decipherment of the Rosetta Stone in the nineteenth century.
The civilization that NUE001 had been part of became ancient history.
And in the hillside at Nuwayrat, the ceramic vessel held his bones.
The DNA in his teeth degraded, slowly, partially, but not completely.
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