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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tyrannohotep: [QB] It's great to see you back, Djehuti. Unfortunately some of the blame for the misrepresentation of these studies has to do with that old adversary of quality science reporting, clickbait yellow journalism. Either the journalists are too incompetent to accurately translate the findings into language that laypeople can understand, or they're unscrupulous enough to deliberately distort them in the name of attracting readers. I believe this is going to be a problem as long as lazy and dishonest reporters continue to infest the field. That said, the Abusir el-Meleq mummies weren't all Roman period. The vast majority of them [i]were[/i] late dynastic (though there were about four from the New Kingdom), but these dated from the Third Intermediate through Ptolemaic to Roman periods. In fact, the paper claimed that there was continuity in mtDNA haplogroups between the pre-Ptolemaic and Roman period Egyptians. I agree that a sample of earlier and/or more southerly Egyptian mummies would probably produce different (i.e. less Eurasian) results, but let's not misrepresent these studies the way the alt-righters might. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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