The 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Man Found In A Tomb — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Unexpected Ancestry
This haplogroup is found most commonly today in North Africa and West Asia, consistent with the broader ancestry picture.
The Y-chromosome haplogroup — tracing the male line — was E1b1b1b2b, again most common in present-day North African and West Asian populations.
All three lines of evidence — the autosomal genome, the mitochondrial DNA, and the Y-chromosome — told the same consistent story: a man who was predominantly North African in his ancestry, with a significant component that pointed toward the eastern Fertile Crescent.
The First Major Payoff: Confirming What Archaeologists Suspected
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