The 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Man Found In A Tomb — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Unexpected Ancestry
This position is correct in its essential claim: ancient Egypt was African, its population was African, and its civilization was developed by the people of the Nile Valley over thousands of years.
The genetic evidence from NUE001 sits within this context and requires careful handling.
The dominant finding — 80 percent North African Neolithic ancestry — firmly places him within the genetic landscape of ancient North Africa.
He was, at the level of primary ancestry, an African person.
This is not in doubt.
The 20 percent Fertile Crescent ancestry does not change this fundamental characterization.
It represents a real genetic contribution from the east, but it is a minority component in a genome that is primarily North African.
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