The 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Man Found In A Tomb — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Unexpected Ancestry
The man buried in Nuwayrat carried that connection in his genome.
The tooth that preserved it for four and a half thousand years, and the science that finally read it, have made it visible.
The window is open.
And through it, for the first time, we can see something of the genetic world of the age of the pyramids — not in stone or painting, but in the molecular record of a single human life.
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