It places him in a network of human movement and exchange that included not just the Nile Valley but the broader ancient Near East.

It confirms, in molecular terms, that ancient Egypt was what the archaeological record had always suggested: a civilization deeply rooted in Africa, connected to the wider ancient world, built by people whose ancestry reflected the movements and mixings of human history.

Ancient Egypt was part of a connected human world.

NUE001 — the man from Nuwayrat, the person whose tooth waited in a Liverpool museum for science to find it — is the first ancient Egyptian to tell us this in his own genetic language.

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