The 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Man Found In A Tomb — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Unexpected Ancestry

And his tooth waited.

The Road Ahead: What More Ancient Egyptian Genomes Could Tell Us

NUE001 is the beginning of a story, not its end.

The researchers who produced this landmark paper are already thinking about what comes next, and the field as a whole has identified the ancient DNA record of Egypt as one of the most important gaps to fill in the global picture of human population history.

The questions that one genome cannot answer are numerous and compelling.