Posted on 10/01/2021 7:34:37 PM PDT by blueplum
The faces of three ancient Egyptian men who lived up to 2,797 years ago have been reconstructed using genetic data extracted from their mummified remains.
It is the first time such a technique has been used on human DNA of that age.
The trio came from Abusir el-Meleq, an ancient city on a floodplain to the south of Cairo, and are estimated to have been buried some time between 780 BC and 5 AD....
...'This is the first time comprehensive DNA phenotyping has been performed on human DNA of this age,' Parabon said in a statement.
The firm's experts found that the three Egyptian men, who belonged to an ancient Nile community and are estimated to have lived between 2,023 and 2,797 years ago, had light brown skin with dark eyes and hair.
Interestingly, their genetic makeup was closer to that of modern individuals in the Mediterranean or the Middle East than it was to modern Egyptians....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
[snip] It was hard enough to find toilet paper last year without mummies being in the mix. [/snip]
Seems like a good source of toilet paper, all that wrapping.
Depending on how the mummies were dated, this could also be one of *those* topics. Thanks blueplum.
Map of Egypt depicting the location of the archaeological site Abusir-el Meleq (orange X) and the location of the modern Egyptian samples (orange circles) (design of the graphic by Annette Günzel).
Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods
Verena J. Schuenemann, Alexander Peltzer, Beatrix Welte, W. Paul van Pelt, Martyna Molak, Chuan-Chao Wang, Anja Furtwängler, Christian Urban, Ella Reiter, Kay Nieselt, Barbara Teßmann, Michael Francken, Katerina Harvati, Wolfgang Haak, Stephan Schiffels & Johannes Krause
Nature Communications volume 8, Article number: 15694 (2017)
Run of the mill muzzies.
Good heavens!! What did their teenagers do then?
cannot wait to see it used in terrorist self-detonations... oh wait, same pics.
Stacked stones into pyramid shapes, apparently.
Any port in a sandstorm...
The guy in the middle is Puerto Rican.
The guy in the middle is Puerto Rican.
Like those colorized pictures of Lincoln and civil war folks, it’s always amazing to “see” their true life images. We sometimes can’t envision these people were real without color and depth.
This would be more interesting to me if they showed examples of this process on known individuals — i.e. give them DNA of living people and tell them to create some facial images and demonstrate how accurate the process is. Otherwise they are just blowing smoke.
Apparently the same thing our teenagers did a couple of decades back. ... I read an article several years ago about a letter that was preserved from ancient Roman times, from a commander in the field back to his wife in Rome. It could have been written by any modern day military person as the subjects were practically the same: family news, local news, complaints of food and lodging and please send some warm clothing. The commander also was angry at his apparently teen age son for being a do-nothing and hanging around with his worthless friends all day in the streets and marketplace...........................
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