The 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Man Found In A Tomb — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Unexpected Ancestry
This is also, importantly, not a surprise in a deeper sense.
Human populations throughout prehistory were mobile.
The idea of ancient Egypt as a demographically isolated civilization, cut off from the rest of the ancient world, does not match what archaeology has consistently shown.
Egypt was connected.
People moved.
The genome of NUE001 is the most direct evidence yet that this movement was real enough to leave marks at the molecular level.
The Old Kingdom Egypt He Lived In
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