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First ever genome study of mummies reveals they were more Turkish and European than African [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 30, 2017 | Harry Pettit

Posted on 05/30/2017 10:42:00 AM PDT by C19fan

The first ever full-genome analysis of Ancient Egyptians shows they were more Turkish and European than African. Scientists analysed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from 1400 BC to 400 AD and discovered they shared genes with people from the Mediterranean. They found that ancient Egyptians were closely related to ancient populations in the Levant - now modern day Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon. They were also genetically similar to Neolithic populations from the Anatolian Peninsula and Europe. The groundbreaking study used recent advances in DNA sequencing techniques to undertake a closer examination of mummy genetics than ever before.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: egypt; mummies; race
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To: C19fan
The Egyptians weren't African-Americans?

Well Duh! It was an ADVANCED culture!

21 posted on 05/30/2017 11:59:57 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: C19fan

File this under DUH


22 posted on 05/30/2017 12:07:41 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: gaijin

He had a condo made of stona.


23 posted on 05/30/2017 12:09:06 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: C19fan

We wuz Kangz!


24 posted on 05/30/2017 12:23:41 PM PDT by drunknsage
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To: C19fan
Years ago on a GGG thread I argued an into Africa theory, the ridicule was loud.

If you look at the racial distribution of Africa, in history, it seems that there is an East to West to South distribution of Black People.

Another thing that puzzled me was a statement of Herodotus was that Pygmies were living around Lake Chad.

25 posted on 05/30/2017 12:25:09 PM PDT by Little Bill (VN 65 - 68)
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To: MNDude

Wow!! Relearning everything we we were taught!
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Not if you took time to examine the evidence.. Egyptian paintings show them as being light skinned with blue eyes and straight hair... The blue eyes , at least in the tomb paintings , were usually blue gemstones (and were often stolen).


26 posted on 05/30/2017 12:59:10 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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To: C19fan

“discovered they shared genes with people from the Mediterranean”

Duh.. Egypt IS on the Mediterranean.


27 posted on 05/30/2017 1:00:20 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: C19fan
I've seen these statues, found in Tut Ankhamun's tomb, in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. They're slaves, guarding the Pharaoh's treasures, and they're just about the only black faces you'll see in whole museum. Africa's a huge continent and identifying all of it as "Negroid" reflects a kind of Maxine Waters level of ignorant and stupid.


28 posted on 05/30/2017 1:02:21 PM PDT by katana
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To: ClearCase_guy

I’m pretty sure the DNA similarities come from the Hittites, not the latter day Turks that live there now (though the Turkish invaders surely interbred with the original inhabitants and still have some of the same genes).


29 posted on 05/30/2017 1:02:34 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Ancesthntr

Waysist! Waysist! 4 Shame !............/sarc AND LOL


30 posted on 05/30/2017 1:07:32 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: C19fan

Though modern day Turkey covers a large part of what was once called Anatolia, to say that the mummies have “Turkish” genealogy is a scientific error.

The Turks that comprise most of Turkey today came from central Asia long - more than a 1,000 years AFTER the mummies were buried, and did not conquer the area of Anatolia until around 1097 A.D.

The people in “Turkey” (Anatolia) at the times the mummies were buried were Arab, Greek, Assyrian, Kurd, Armenian, Jewish and Christian of various ethnic origins BUT NOT “Turkish”.

“Scientists” claim the general public wrongly dismisses “science”, when it is scientists fault for the phony “science” they keep delivering.


31 posted on 05/30/2017 1:10:30 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: katana

That’s not a statue of a slave. Only a Pharoah could wear that headress with the cobra on it, because it’s a symbol of the Pharaoh’s authority (like a crown). He is also holding the rod and scepter of a Pharoah, and it looks like the base of the statue has heiroglyphs enclosed in a cartouche, which was only done for the names of Pharoahs.

Egyptians routinely carved statues out of all manner of stone, it was not necessarily used to depict the skin color of the person they were portraying.


32 posted on 05/30/2017 1:18:39 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
SPOT ON !

The Hitties were rivals of the Egyptians, but were basically the same kinds of people.

Though the "lost" empire of the Kush, was supposedly comprised of black Africans, their extremely brief time ruling over Egypt, did NOT make Egyptians "blacks"! They didn't intermarry and the whole bunch of them DISAPPEARED, shortly after they lost Lower Egypt, which was the ONLY teeny portion that they ever had any hold over.

33 posted on 05/30/2017 1:28:40 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Cowboy Bob

“The Egyptians weren’t African-Americans?
Well Duh! It was an ADVANCED culture”

Well, I’ve always heard AA’s built this advanced culture.


34 posted on 05/30/2017 1:46:03 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
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To: C19fan

The inhabitants of Anatolia -Turkiye- in 400 BC were not Turks. Turks swept in from Asia at later dates.


35 posted on 05/30/2017 2:32:54 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: ClearCase_guy

The writer just saw Anatolian origins and knows that Anatolia means Turkey ergo they must be Turks.


36 posted on 05/30/2017 2:34:39 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: PapaBear3625

The first Egyptian rulers, way pre-dynastically speaking, were probably Sumerians.


37 posted on 05/30/2017 2:36:00 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: C19fan

Any modern region or country with some variation of GAL in its name is probably a place that was inhabited by Celts at some point in the past.


38 posted on 05/30/2017 2:37:51 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: arthurus
The writer just saw Anatolian origins and knows that Anatolia means Turkey ergo they must be Turks.

I think you're right.

Most scholarly stuff uses 'Turkic' to indicate the central Asian people distinguished from more recent 'Turks'. Was it just ignorance, or was the author trying to convey some PC idea?

It isn't precisely clear if the DNA indicates ancient Anatolians or ancient Turkic peoples.

Isn't there some thought that the ancient Egyptians came from farther WEST, driven into the Nile valley by the drying out of the once-fertile area now the Sahara?

39 posted on 05/30/2017 2:54:17 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

The initiators and first bosses of the Egyptian civilization were probably Sumerians. The population may well have migrated east as you suggest.


40 posted on 05/30/2017 3:10:05 PM PDT by arthurus
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