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Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian
Nature ^ | July 02, 2025 | (listed below)

Posted on 07/12/2025 7:39:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Abstract: Ancient Egyptian society flourished for millennia, reaching its peak during the Dynastic Period (approximately 3150–30 bce). However, owing to poor DNA preservation, questions about regional interconnectivity over time have not been addressed because whole-genome sequencing has not yet been possible. Here we sequenced a 2× coverage whole genome from an adult male Egyptian excavated at Nuwayrat (Nuerat, نويرات). Radiocarbon dated to 2855–2570 cal. bce, he lived a few centuries after Egyptian unification, bridging the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods. The body was interred in a ceramic pot within a rock-cut tomb1, potentially contributing to the DNA preservation. Most of his genome is best represented by North African Neolithic ancestry, among available sources at present. Yet approximately 20% of his genetic ancestry can be traced to genomes representing the eastern Fertile Crescent, including Mesopotamia and surrounding regions. This genetic affinity is similar to the ancestry appearing in Anatolia and the Levant during the Neolithic and Bronze Age2,3,4,5. Although more genomes are needed to fully understand the genomic diversity of early Egyptians, our results indicate that contacts between Egypt and the eastern Fertile Crescent were not limited to objects and imagery (such as domesticated animals and plants, as well as writing systems)6,7,8,9 but also encompassed human migration.
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; oldkingdom
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Authors: Adeline Morez Jacobs, Joel D. Irish, Ashley Cooke, Kyriaki Anastasiadou, Christopher Barrington, Alexandre Gilardet, Monica Kelly, Marina Silva, Leo Speidel, Frankie Tait, Mia Williams, Nicolas Brucato, Francois-Xavier Ricaut, Caroline Wilkinson, Richard Madgwick, Emily Holt, Alexandra J. Nederbragt, Edward Inglis, Mateja Hajdinjak, Pontus Skoglund & Linus Girdland-Flink

1 posted on 07/12/2025 7:39:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Final facial depiction of the Nuwayrat individual.
Credit: Jacobs et al / Nature
Credit: Jacobs et al / Nature
Scientists Unveil Image Of Ancient Egyptian Derived From First Fully Sequenced Genome | StudyFinds Analysis | Reviewed by Steve Fink | July 07, 2025

2 posted on 07/12/2025 7:40:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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...I use a cobra snake for a necktie... I got a brand new chimney made on top Made out of a human skull...

3 posted on 07/12/2025 7:42:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“…our results indicate that contacts between Egypt and the eastern Fertile Crescent were not limited to objects and imagery (such as domesticated animals and plants, as well as writing systems), but also encompassed human migration.”

Apparently, it was known as the “Fertile Crescent” for more than one reason.

There was significant overland trade between those places, so lots of seed was sown by the frequent trade caravans.


4 posted on 07/12/2025 7:58:04 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: SunkenCiv

Didn’t this guy get arrested throwing gasoline on jews?


5 posted on 07/12/2025 8:03:39 AM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...a)
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To: SunkenCiv
Where there is trade of goods there will be an exchange of body fluids.

In several cultures peddlers were used by infertile couples as sperm donors.

6 posted on 07/12/2025 9:14:41 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Probably a slave taken in battle.


7 posted on 07/12/2025 9:51:16 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

The Egyptians didn’t seem to keep defeated foreign soldiers, they’d chop off their hands and then kill ‘em. And the other way around, I think Egyptian soldiers got rewarded by the hand or something.


8 posted on 07/12/2025 9:58:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Serai, last name Caravan — she got around.


9 posted on 07/12/2025 9:59:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv

There are several images of Old Kingdom Egyptians showing “Westerner” captives.


10 posted on 07/12/2025 11:35:51 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SunkenCiv

LOL…the very first good coffee shop I ever went to was “named Caravansari” on Chestnut St in San Francisco. She did get around!

I still have my Turkish hand coffee grinder I bought there in 1974.


11 posted on 07/12/2025 12:15:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”s)
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To: PIF
More than several. Given how captives were treated, there was probably a need to make war on neighboring people just to maintain a living slave-labor workforce. Probably still a better deal than the one the Aztecs gave the losers in their "Flower Wars".
I noticed that the wiki-wacky page on Slavery in Ancient Egypt has a lot of disclaimers about, for example, how forced labor was different from slavery. ;^)

12 posted on 07/12/2025 12:17:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; martin_fierro

Turkish hand coffee grinder... when I was in high school we had an exchange student, that was her nickname...


13 posted on 07/12/2025 12:21:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Lol…I’ll bet she could grind your beans.


14 posted on 07/12/2025 1:21:36 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”s)
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To: SunkenCiv

lot of disclaimers about, for example, how forced labor was different from slavery.


Considering that most labor was carried out voluntarily by farmers, after their crops were harvested, in exchange for grain to feed their families.


15 posted on 07/12/2025 1:28:14 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“ but also encompassed human migration”

A lot of genetic changes over time happen because the “migrants” kill the men and take the women.

Very controversial in, for example, India but the data doesn’t lie. In Iceland the men were Vikings but the women came from raiding Ireland.

It’s nature’s way. Build the wall.


16 posted on 07/12/2025 1:33:50 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: PIF
Considering that most labor was carried out voluntarily by farmers, after their crops were harvested, in exchange for grain to feed their families.

So you grow the crops, harvest the crops, the government takes the crops and in return for you working on their project they will give you enough of the food you raised to survive.

That is not exactly voluntary.

17 posted on 07/12/2025 1:38:16 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

You give the crops to the Pharaoh because that is the way it was done. Hindsight is a poor excuse for an argument. It was considered voluntary by the people, whether you agree or not. It was their culture which lasted for 3,500 years - more than we can say to day about our ‘culture’.


18 posted on 07/12/2025 3:59:32 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
So all the farmers were actually slaves.

It was considered voluntary by the people, whether you agree or not.

It was not considered voluntary. It might have been considered mandatory but not voluntary.

It was their culture which lasted for 3,500 years - more than we can say to day about our ‘culture’.

Their culture lasted about 4 generations before it exploded into war because that is about how long you have before your incest results in offspring that are retarded, lame and completely unable to produce viable offspring.

The history of Egypt is one of the country going up in flames every little bit.

If you want to use the same metric for "lasting" for Western culture as you do for Egypt we have also been around 3500 years and going strong.

19 posted on 07/12/2025 4:22:33 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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20 posted on 07/13/2025 6:32:40 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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