It was more than one: it was enough samples to be conclusive, as in science, any reasonable person would have to accept the outcome; the ancient Egyptians, for the most part, were not black people. Just how mixed they were is still an open question, but they were not a black nation. Before DNA, there was already plenty of evidence to show Egypt was predominately a caucasian nation. Hair samples of the Egyptian mummies showed that almost all had Caucasian hair; very few showed flat negroid hair. They spoke a language similar to the people of the Middle East. Look at geography: people tended to look like their neighbors; their close neighbors were Caucasian.
You can have your own opinion, but you can’t have your own facts; we all share the same facts. Please don’t create historical pollution like so many black writers have done in the past. I realize this is not a big deal to you, but to someone who loves history and science it’s important. It’s hard enough to know what the past was like, without some people confusing the issues.
DNA discovery reveals relatives of ancient Egyptians | CNN
sTORY HIGHLIGHTS
Mummy genome data have been extracted for the first time
The mummies' closest ancient relatives were found in the Near East and Europe
Modern Egyptians have developed a greater amount of sub-Saharan DNA
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Ancient Egyptians and their modern counterparts share less in common than you might think. That is, at least genetically, a team of scientists have found.
Researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, both in Germany, have decoded the genome of ancient Egyptians for the first time, with unexpected results.
Publishing its findings in
Nature Communications, the study concluded that preserved remains found in Abusir-el Meleq, Middle Egypt, were closest genetic relatives of Neolithic and Bronze Age populations from the Near East, Anatolia and Eastern Mediterranean Europeans.
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Modern Egyptians, by comparison, share much more DNA with sub-Saharan populations.
The findings have turned years of theory on its head, causing Egyptologists to re-evaluate the region’s history while unlocking new tools for scientists working in the field