The 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Man Found In A Tomb — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Unexpected Ancestry
He carried an ancestry that was partly connected to the east.
Both of these things are true simultaneously.
This is the kind of nuance that ancient DNA research, done carefully, makes possible: not the confirmation of simple narratives about pure populations or foreign invasions, but a more complex and more human picture of populations that were always connected, always moving, always mixing, while maintaining distinct cultural identities.
The Nile As Corridor And As World
NUE001’s world was organized around the Nile in ways that are difficult to fully appreciate from a modern perspective.
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