Expanding temporal coverage: The approximately 3,000 years of Egyptian Dynastic history saw enormous political and cultural change.

Genomic data from the Middle Kingdom, the New Kingdom, the Late Period, and the Ptolemaic Period would allow researchers to track how the genetic character of Egyptian populations changed across these periods of transformation, particularly during the episodes of foreign rule — Hyksos, Nubian, Persian, Macedonian — that punctuate Egyptian history.

Attempting mummy analysis: The successful sequencing of NUE001 from a pre-mummification burial raises the question of whether the more elaborate mummified remains that fill museum collections worldwide can yield genomic data with improving technology.

If mummy DNA can be successfully sequenced — even from some individuals under some preservation conditions — the population of potential subjects for study expands enormously.