They record the administrative structures of a state that moved grain and workers across the Nile Valley in organized systems of redistribution.

What they do not record — because it was not the kind of thing that seemed important to the official record-keepers — is the quiet movement of people from east to west, the individual histories that left a genetic trace in the populations of Middle Egypt.

NUE001 is a piece of that unrecorded history, made visible by science.

The Implications For Understanding Egyptian Origins

The NUE001 genome enters a field of Egyptological study that has been shaped, and sometimes distorted, by ideological agendas for more than a century.