The 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Man Found In A Tomb — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Unexpected Ancestry
In Egypt, even a few thousand years can be too long.
The result was that by the time Morez Jacobs and her colleagues began their work, the ancient DNA record for Egypt was thin to the point of inadequacy.
Three partial genomes had been recovered from individuals at Abusir el-Meleq, a site in Middle Egypt — but these individuals dated to between 787 BCE and 23 CE, spanning the Third Intermediate Period through the Roman occupation.
They were ancient Egyptians, but they were late ancient Egyptians, separated from the formative period of Egyptian civilization by more than a thousand years.
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