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DNA From Ancient Egyptian Mummies Reveals Their Ancestry (washingtonpost.com)
HanzoSpam quotes a report from Washington Post: Ancient Egyptians were an archaeologist's dream. They left behind intricate coffins, massive pyramids and gorgeous hieroglyphs, the pictorial writing code cracked in 1799. But there was one persistent hole in ancient Egyptian identity: their chromosomes. A study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Tubingen in Germany managed to plug some of those genetic gaps. Researchers wrung genetic material from 151 Egyptian mummies, radiocarbon dated between Egypt's New Kingdom (the oldest at 1388 B.C.) to the Roman Period (the youngest at 426 A.D.), as reported Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. Johannes Krause, a University of Tubingen paleogeneticist and an author of the study, said the major finding was that "for 1,300 years, we see complete genetic continuity." Despite repeated conquests of Egypt, by Alexander the Great, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Assyrians -- the list goes on -- ancient Egyptians showed little genetic change. "The other big surprise," Krause said, "was we didn't find much sub-Saharan African ancestry."
No shit, Sherlock.
Ancient Egyptians were always known to be Caucasian. Anyone saying anything else was engaging in bullshit and/or wishful thinking.
Yeah, poor black people trying to claim they were Egyptians.
Why is it so bad to be whom they actually are?
Perhaps the slave / worker / minstrel caste were Sub-Saharan Africans.
So the Pharaohs had black maids and yard workers. I guess not much has changed over the centuries.
Why does the Sphinx have an African face?
Because you want it to be African.
That doesn't make Egyptian Pharaohs anything but Caucasian.
Hmm...with no diversity, I guess by todays SJW standards, they'd be branded a racist, xenophobic, close minded civilization.....
How dare they...!! No civilization can accomplish much with this type of closed minded thinking, I mean look at how little the Egyptians accomplish......ed.
Errr.....ok, wait a minute.
Ok, I guess they somehow overcame this....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Why is it so bad to be whom they actually are?
Ethiopia and the other old African civilizations don't have the same level of public recognition that Egypt does.
I'm not even sure what the other old African civilizations are, before I did a quick recheck to see what Ethiopia had been up to for the last 2000 years, all I could easily remember was that they were once respected trade partners with Egypt and Rome.
Well, all the classic ones were North African and thus more mediterrainian or near east than sub-saharan black.
Of the great black kingdoms, I can think of Mali and Songhai in West Africa (I think there was a couple more, these were the great black kingdoms capturing all the slaves Europeans bought and took to the new world). In the east there was Ethiopia and the rich merchant city of Zanzibar, and a large continous culture of Swahili speakers in between, though I don't think those were united.
Never happened.
Also, would have been pretty amazing if the US Army had come to comprehend and weaponize germ theory decades before it was developed and accepted.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.