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[...] an international team of researchers from the University of Tuebingen, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, the University of Cambridge, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Berlin Society of Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, looked at genetic differentiation and population continuity over a timespan of around one and a half millennia, and compared these results to modern populations. The team sampled 151 mummified individuals from the archaeological site of Abusir el-Meleq, along the Nile River in Middle Egypt, from two anthropological collections hosted and curated at the University of Tuebingen and the Felix von Luschan Skull Collection at the Museum of Prehistory of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz.
In total, the authors recovered mitochondrial genomes from 90 individuals, and genome-wide datasets from three individuals. They were able to use the data gathered to test previous hypotheses drawn from archaeological and historical data, and from studies of modern DNA. "In particular, we were interested in looking at changes and continuities in the genetic makeup of the ancient inhabitants of Abusir el-Meleq," said Alexander Peltzer, one of the lead authors of the study from the University of Tuebingen. The team wanted to determine if the investigated ancient populations were affected at the genetic level by foreign conquest and domination during the time period under study, and compared these populations to modern Egyptian comparative populations. "We wanted to test if the conquest of Alexander the Great and other foreign powers has left a genetic imprint on the ancient Egyptian population," explains Verena Schuenemann, group leader at the University of Tuebingen and one of the lead authors of this study.
[...] The study found that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations in the Levant, and were also closely related to Neolithic populations from the Anatolian Peninsula and Europe. "The genetics of the Abusir el-Meleq community did not undergo any major shifts during the 1,300 year timespan we studied, suggesting that the population remained genetically relatively unaffected by foreign conquest and rule," says Wolfgang Haak, group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. The data shows that modern Egyptians share approximately 8% more ancestry on the nuclear level with Sub-Saharan African populations than with ancient Egyptians. "This suggests that an increase in Sub-Saharan African gene flow into Egypt occurred within the last 2,000 years," explains Stephan Schiffels, group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. Possible causal factors may have been improved mobility down the Nile River, increased long-distance trade between Sub-Saharan Africa and Egypt, and the trans-Saharan slave trade that began approximately 1,300 years ago.
Ancient Egyptians were not African per se, but their modern descendants are more mixed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @03:33PM (1 child)
There is actually a long-term, someone nasty debate over the race of the ancient Egyptians. Were they black people? Now we know: Definitely not.
(Score: 1) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday June 01 2017, @10:45PM
Terrific! I love sarcophaguses. They're gold and you can put corpses in them. Having one built for Rosie. She's a pig so it's gonna be big. Huge. She got lipo but she's still a pig. Making a super size sarcophagus for her, because she's gonna blow up again. Because The View is failing. She's failing at it. Because she's a pig. Already had one built for Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer never made 10 cents on his own-he worked for his very rich father (a friend of mine who never thought much of Eliot as a businessman). Failing! I told them, fake gold for his. And Rosie's. Because who puts a pig in a real gold sarcophagus? Fake gold for both. It's good enough for Rosie. Good enough for Eliot. They're failing and they're fake. Like the gold. Not like the old mummies. I always said those mummies aren't black. I met President Sisi. Great guy, a real stand up kind of guy. Solid. Real good friend. Good friend to have in my corner. Love his shoes. Boy, those shoes. Man! And not black. I knew he wouldn't be black. Good for him, he's a great guy, my friend Abdel. Not black at all, not one bit of black in him. Great! And you know what folks, I'm gonna order a sarcophagus for Kathy Griffin. A huge, fake gold sarcophagus because she's a disgusting, lying pig.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @03:35PM (6 children)
There is actually a long-standing, somewhat nasty debate over the race of the ancient Egyptians.
Were they black people?
Now we know: Definitely not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @03:46PM
I thought the problem was to figure out how the ancient Egyptians bent their hands around that way (see some of their wall paintings for examples).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @04:38PM (4 children)
Obviously, this is the better comment. Why didn't you mark the OTHER one as "Redundant". Faggots.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @05:16PM (3 children)
One of these days, SoylentNews will catch fire and fall over and sink into the Nile, never to be seen again, and not to be missed. How we will celebrate on that day!! Wine and song!!!
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 01 2017, @05:24PM (2 children)
Add "soylentnews.org 127.0.0.1" on a new line in your /etc/hosts file and you can celebrate right now.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 01 2017, @05:27PM
Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you.
Things like this seem to always happen when I post within ten minutes of waking up from a nap.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 01 2017, @09:58PM
Made me snerk, +1 :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @03:52PM (1 child)
Now scientific eggheads have decided the issue of race, tell us which genders the ancient Egyptians were.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday June 01 2017, @11:47PM
Cats obviously! Duh!!!
(Score: 1) by justinb_76 on Thursday June 01 2017, @04:27PM
they wasn't Kangz after all...
now let's get this news to the fine folks at Evergreen State College!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @04:43PM (4 children)
I doubt he was spreading his DNA very far, at least not in a way that it would reproduce itself.
Now, if it had been the Americans... What's Egyptian (hieroglyph) for *Me so hony! Me love you long time!*?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @05:07PM (2 children)
You are a very pathetic and non-Egyptian, and even non-Ptolemaic, AC!
Is there nothing but ACs of this sort left on SoylentNews? Is there?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @05:11PM
Fuck you up the ass with a wadjet on a stick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @08:59PM
No.
op. cit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @03:10AM