Egypt, located on the isthmus of Africa, is an ideal region to study historical population dynamics due to its geographic location and documented interactions with ancient civilizations in Africa, Asia and Europe. Particularly, in the first millennium BCE Egypt endured foreign domination leading to growing numbers of foreigners living within its borders possibly contributing genetically to the local population. Here we present 90 mitochondrial genomes as well as genome-wide data sets from three individuals obtained from Egyptian mummies. The samples recovered from Middle Egypt span around 1,300 years of ancient Egyptian history from the New Kingdom to the Roman Period. Our analyses reveal that ancient Egyptians shared more ancestry with Near Easterners than present-day Egyptians, who received additional sub-Saharan admixture in more recent times. This analysis establishes ancient Egyptian mummies as a genetic source to study ancient human history and offers the perspective of deciphering Egypt’s past at a genome-wide level.
We found the ancient Egyptian samples falling distinct from modern Egyptians, and closer towards Near Eastern and European samples
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the media evolution of titles/subject
1) We found the ancient Egyptian samples falling distinct from modern Egyptians, and closer towards Near Eastern and European samples
2) ancient Egyptians: First ever genome study of mummies reveals they were more Turkish and European than African
3) Ancient Egyptians were more European than African, groundbreaking DNA research reveals
Interesting how the original biased study said Near Eastern and European samples, later on even the first relatedness they claimed, Near Eastern was removed from the topic and just Europeans remains. And in one day this Worldstar version has hit 80k + views, approaching double of the other version on youtube that was posted end of may 2017
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