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'Crucial Piece of the Puzzle': Egyptian Mummies Genome Value for Genetics
Sputnik ^

Posted on 05/31/2017 8:35:37 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

An international team of researchers have recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from 1400 BCE to 400 BCE, this included the first genome-wide data from three individuals. The study found that modern Egyptians share more ancestry with sub-Saharan Africans than ancient Egyptians did, whereas ancient Egyptians were found to be most closely related to ancient people from the Middle East and Western Asia.

(Excerpt) Read more at sputniknews.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mummies
Cornell West is not pleased. Last week it was announced we came from Bulgaria instead of Africa, and now the Egyptians weren't genetically African?
1 posted on 05/31/2017 8:35:38 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

“I hate mummies!”


2 posted on 05/31/2017 8:42:27 PM PDT by thulldud
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To: ameribbean expat

Bump
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3 posted on 05/31/2017 8:42:44 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: thulldud

Obama got all excited when he heard there was an article about “mummy genes”... thought he might pick up a few more pair.


4 posted on 05/31/2017 8:46:21 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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White people build wonderful civilizations, and then people flock to them. 10000 years from now, archeologists will dig up bones in California and come to the conclusion that 3 foot tall Incan Mexicans went to the moon


5 posted on 05/31/2017 8:50:42 PM PDT by brucedickinson
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We’ve long known they weren’t black like the Nubians. Plenty Egyptian mummies had red hair! However Itake this study with a grain of salt as it doesn’t go back far enough. By 1400 BC we know they’d had periods of foreign rule and lists of relations with eastern powers. DNA before 2000 BC showing similar results, if obtainable, would be more convincing for such conclusions.


6 posted on 05/31/2017 9:01:42 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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To: ameribbean expat

No surprise to me.


7 posted on 05/31/2017 9:04:04 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (My wish list: https, failover server, six sigma uptime.)
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My personal theory on human migration is that if it is a large migration, its morons about to screw up a higher civilization. If its a relatively small migration, its the intelligent crowd just trying to put space between themselves and the morons.

Examples of small migrations: Neanderthals, Celts in northwest Europe, the New Amsterdam Dutch, Chinese migration to South America and people moving out of Florida these days.


8 posted on 05/31/2017 9:07:02 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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Illegal aliens from Middle East and Western Asia snuck into Egypt, introduced belly dancing, hookas and camels.


9 posted on 05/31/2017 9:11:42 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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Did natural climate cycles force Egyptian migration to and from Egypt over the centuries?


10 posted on 05/31/2017 9:27:47 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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Clever


11 posted on 05/31/2017 9:41:14 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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is this chart showing a heavy Finnish/Nordic/English/Russian with light Jewish at the beginning? Then poof. Russians, Iranians, Bedouins move in. Then poof again on the Russians. I wonder how that co-relates with Babylon? Or am I looking at the chart wrong?
12 posted on 06/01/2017 2:44:45 AM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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This should not be a surprise. Ancient Egyptian murals include “nubians” as one of the four enemies of Egypt.


13 posted on 06/01/2017 4:10:49 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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Cornel West imho is a fraud and a huckster.


14 posted on 06/01/2017 4:14:06 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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I was told there was a wall built across Upper Egypt


15 posted on 06/01/2017 5:21:26 AM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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