The Egyptian in all of us: First modern humans from Europe and Asia from the Sinai peninsula

Daily Mail ^ | 28 May 2015 | Richard Gray

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The first modern humans to arrive in Europe and Asia migrated north out of Egypt around 55,000 years ago, according to new genetic research.

The study has answered a long standing question about the route early Homo sapiens took when spreading from the African continent.

It shows most Europeans and Asians living today are more closely related genetically to people living in Egypt than in Ethiopia.

The first modern humans to leave Africa and spread into Asia and Europe appear to have taken a northern route out of the continent by crossing the Sinai peninsula according to new genetic research. A reconstruction of one of those first humans to arrive in Europe is shown above from the two part TV series Neanderthal

The first modern humans to leave Africa and spread into Asia and Europe appear to have taken a northern route out of the continent by crossing the Sinai peninsula according to new genetic research. A reconstruction of one of those first humans to arrive in Europe is shown above from the two part TV series Neanderthal

This suggests Egypt was the last stop for people migrating out of Africa 55,000 years ago rather than taking a more southerly route through Ethiopia.

Some scientists believed that humans may have travelled from Ethiopia across the Bab el Mandeb strait to the Arabian Peninsula.

And the study suggests that the spread of modern populations across Europe occurred much later than had originally been thought.

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