The first ever full-genome analysis of Ancient Egyptians shows they were more European than African.
Scientists analysed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from 1400 BC to 400 AD and discovered they shared genes with people from the Mediterranean.
They found that ancient Egyptians were closely related to ancient populations in the Levant – now modern day Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon.
They were also genetically similar to Neolithic populations from the Anatolian Peninsula and Europe. In plain English, Egyptians were related to Persians, Rome and Greece whom were all white European people.
The groundbreaking study used recent advances in DNA sequencing techniques to undertake a closer examination of mummy genetics than ever before.
The study, published in Nature Communications, found that modern Egyptians who are actually just Arab invaders, share more ancestry with Sub-Saharan Africans than ancient Egyptians did.
The data shows that modern Egyptians share approximately eight per cent more ancestry on the nuclear level with Sub-Saharan African populations than with ancient Egyptians.
Egypt is a promising location for the study of ancient populations because it was a world-wide trading hub.
This is likely the reason that ancient Egyptians had such a diverse genetic heritage, the authors, from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, said.
‘The population history of Egypt is complex because it is found at the ispus of Africa, the gateway to a continent, and has seen much historical turnover,’ Max Planck Director for the Science of Human History and study lead author Professor Johannes Krause told MailOnline.
‘Ancient Egypt in the 1millenium BC had been dominated by many foreign powers.
The team’s research involved unravelling the genetic history of Egyptians by comparing DNA samples taken from both modern and ancient natives.
The researchers were aiming to establish an exhaustive genetic database to study the ancient past of Egypt for the first time.
‘It has been much debated whether foreign dominations such as Assyrians, Nunbians, Greeks or Romans changed the gene pool of ancient Europe, making them more or less African,’ Professor Krause told MailOnline.
‘We wanted to test that and found that there is genetic continuity between the old kingdom and Roman period.
HOW THE STUDY WAS DONE
Mummified human DNA is normally difficult to study because of chemical treatment of the bodies before mummification, and due to the warm environment they are kept in.
But new genetic techniques used by the team allowed them to study mummified DNA in greater detail than ever before.
The team sampled 151 mummified individuals from the archaeological site of Abusir el-Meleq, along the Nile River in Middle Egypt.
In total, the authors recovered mitochondrial genomes from 90 individuals, and genome-wide datasets from three individuals.
The genome-wide samples are the first ever taken from mummified remains.
The team compared this ancient Egyptian DNA to genome samples from modern Egyptians to analyse differences in genetic makeup.
‘However in the last 1,500 years Egypt became more genetically African, whereas the ancient Egyptians showed almost no sub-Saharan African ancestry and high affinity to ancient Near Eastern and European populations.’
The team sampled 151 mummified individuals from the archaeological site of Abusir el-Meleq, along the Nile River in Middle Egypt.
Recent advances in the study of ancient DNA present an intriguing opportunity to test existing understandings of Egyptian history using the ancient genetic data.
The new study managed to extract accurate, full-genome DNA data from three ancient Egyptian mummies, and usable segments of DNA from 90 mummies.
WHY IS IT DIFFICULT TO EXTRACT MUMMY DNA?
Although some of the first extractions of ancient DNA were from mummified remains, scientists have previously raised doubts as to whether genetic data from mummies would be reliable even if it could be recovered.
The hot Egyptian climate, high humidity levels in many tombs and some of the chemicals used in mummification techniques contribute to DNA degradation.
Scientists had therefore assumed that the long-term survival of DNA in Egyptian mummies was unlikely, making mummy genetic data unusable.
But using recent advances in modern genetics technology, the new study managed to extract accurate full-genome DNA data from three ancient Egyptian mummies, and usable segments of DNA from 90 mummies.
The team used next-generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and retrieve those that resembled human DNA.
The complete reads allowed the team to spot telltale damage patterns associated only with ancient DNA.
This makes the new study’s results much more reliable than those of any mummy DNA research that has come before.
The ability to extract nuclear DNA from such mummies, as well as show its reliability using robust authentication methods, is a scientific breakthrough that opens the door to further direct study of mummified remains.
The team used next-generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and retrieve those that resembled human DNA.
The complete reads allowed the team to spot telltale damage patterns associated only with ancient DNA.
This makes the new study’s results much more reliable than those of any mummy DNA research that has come before.
The extraction of reliable nuclear DNA from Egyptian mummies is hence a breakthrough in genetics that opens the door to more detailed studies of mummified remains.
They were able to use the data gathered to test previous hypotheses drawn from archaeological and historical data, and from studies of modern DNA.
Professor Alexander Peltzer, from the University of Tuebingen, said: ‘In particular, we were interested in looking at changes and continuities in the genetic makeup of the ancient inhabitants of Abusir el-Meleq.
‘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.’
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.
The study found that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations in the Levant (modern day Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon), and were also closely related to Neolithic populations from the Anatolian Peninsula and Europe.
Coauthor Wolfgang Haack, group leader at the Max Planck Institute, added: ‘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.’
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This is very confusing. Why did the ancient Egyptians depict themselves as Black in their paintings and sculptures before 1500 B.C.? Why are there no paintings of white Egyptians during this early time period from 3500 B.C. and earlier, in ancient Egyptian art?
Exactly. It’s because they only became “white” after Egypt had been conquered by its enemies. They even described Set , the villain, as having “Red Skin”, while Osiris was originally described as having skin “as dark as the fertile earth”.
Interesting. Ancient Egyptians wrote of several major gods being sub saharan Africans. “Osiris is a proud Ethiopian”. “…Amun that lofty child of Ethiopia”. Does anyone out there know why white skinned red heads would worship Ethiopians? Some years ago the tomb of Osiris was reported to have been discovered. Has this institute done a study on the DNA from that site yet? If so would someone please share the source of the study done?
As a teen, there was a book in my school’s library that said the ancient Egyptians described Osiris as having “Skin as dark as the fertile soil”. That means he started out as a black/dark skinned :god’ before he was assassinated and became the green skinned king of the dead. In what country of Europeans do they worship a benevolent dark skinned/black “god”?
Everything “black” in European culture is coded as “bad”. All their “gods” are pale skinned. The Bible even told us the founder of Egypt was black via Ham’s son. And those “tests”? It’s as you said, they take the DNA from periods in which Egypt had already been overrun by invaders.
“There was a book in my school’s library that said the ancient Egyptians described Osiris as having ‘Skin as dark as the fertile soil’ ” because all books are totally always accurate. Books lie easily, you should look at the source material rather then what a guy says a people said who he proably interpreted from another person who could or could not have an agenda.
Also jeez, really, the bible? Ham was supposedly made black but nowhere do you really see that. Besides that can’t be true because Africans aren’t just a different color but are very different in their bone structure and even IQ.. Blacks were never white. You being unwilling to accept science and instead talking about your precious supposed but from what I can tell fake bible curse and supposed writing by a dude is laughable; who’s to say you even remember it right! What you’re spewing isn’t even pseudo science; it’s cope!
The phoenicians / jews were responsible for the racemixing which eventually destroyed the original Egyptian race – ruddy skinned men and white skinned women, blonde or red hair, blue eyes. The semites brought in their negroids and the original civilization eventually fell to the phoenicians.
Coudenhove-Kalergyi is the exact same plan again in current times. Nothing has changed. the genestealer parasites have reached their biological peak long ago and ever since have been the shapeshifters and vampires feeding on normal humans.
Nothing here proves they were white. What it clearly proves is dna came from groups that may have inhabited those regions. Which are white today! Not white 4-5000 years ago. White skin is only 8,200 years old!
It clearly proves they wewre white. It packed up by genomic research
Exactly.
What are you talking about? Chromagnon was White.
Sumerians were White blondes, w beards & blue eyes. White, red/blonde haired mummies are found around the world in a ton of ancient locations. Same thing has been happening for 1000s of years.
A good book on this study is “The Children of Ra”, by Arthur Kemp. Lots of pictures and data.
Same as ancient Greek. Later breed with ape frikans and Turks, before that red hair, blond hair, wore wigs, closest related to Irish ,Scottish some in Spain-but not the ones tainted with the Muslim invasions. Evidence shows they put Muslims and blacks on their shoes to walk in them, among many other things you can find blue eyes statues, noses cut off to hide euro features but sometimes they forgot idiots left the corpses. After slaves breeding too much and too much muzzyz coming in they left Egypt for Europe. Now look at that place after whites leave.
The hillbilly sasquatch/pig hybrids were not the original inhabitants of Egypt. They only came into play after they inavded it centuries later. It’s utterly retarded to think some Uropeens founded Egypt when their red arses can’t take that hot desert sun without any sunscreen protection. They were bred/ evolved to exist in the colder northen regions of Europe. Sure , there are some somewhat darker sknned ones, but not dark enough for Egypt in those times. But leave it to some racist Eurocentrc Neanderthals to try to claim what was never theirs.
Sumerians were White, blue eyed, blondes/red heads/beards… flew in Vimanas, were called the Gods… clearly described in the Vedas. They built the pyramids. The Chachapoyas/Cloud People built pyramids were blonde White & colonized by the Aztecs & assimilated.
If african-blacks built the pyramids, why are there no pyramids anywhere else on the continent?
Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt.
Susan’s pyramids were the size of a two-story house.
Sudan pyrimeds are very very small, and this called kushi, which is really not count as it ruled only 50 years and got demolished.
No african black built the pyrimeds. As egyptologist i can till you this is completely wrong and not backed up by any research.
Blacks can’t even run a town, let alone a country!!! Yet we are expected to believe they built Pyramids in ancient Egypt, a land adjacent to White nations in Southern Europe and adjacent to the original un-mixed Semites [who are now today ALL mixed with some black ancestry due to the Arab trade in black slaves]?? It’s ridiculous alright!
If you look at the actual tests, these sequences were taken from A TOTAL OF 3 MUMMIES dating between 776 and 2 BC during the time of Persian and Roman occupation in Egypt. This is in no way shape or form indicative of the ethnology of ANCIENT ‘Egyptians’. Moreover, there is nothing to indicate ‘whiteness’ of even these samples. It was also comical the number of European and Asian samples as contrasted by the so called Sub-Saharan samples. The test lacked rigor and is really irrelevant from the start anyway given the time frame and sample. It is known that Persians and Romans were not ‘Egyptians’-proper. No new information here.
We wuz kangz and shit wipipo own nufin
Yoo wuz never kangz an you still ain’t nufin. De only kang yoo iz am kang koon.
Wez’ wipipo wuz de kungz. Dat why sas :-)quatches in de pantings. That uncle Jed
Oh no ma. Them thar darkies is tryin’ ter klaim our hairatge, we’z waz de kungs!! :-)
Shiet, boy. We wipipo unvunted sunlite. Ain’t ya hurd? komnon cents say ur haratge belongs with them thar rumans/greeks. But we kan klame shiet that wan’en e’en urs . Them dar Jyptians praktacally kalled demself der blak folk. tey even say Osirus wa’ black. But we Hillbilly gon’ klame it all. Yeer hoo!!
You are correct
Can’t you read? Over 150 mummies were tested from the full span of the Egyptian empire. The full test is available for all to read online. It is extremely lengthy. Do a search and read it for yourself. On the contrary your afrocentric pseudoscience has zero basis in reality.
Black people are cheered for IF they can tie their own shoes!! You think they were building pyramids and debating science and other things??? :grin::joy::rofl: The DNA results give the OBVIOUS EXPECTED results.
Very misleading post. You failed to mention that the scientists admitted that this study done on mummies from a certain geographic area from a certain period in Egyptian history does not preclude that all ancient Egyptians were the same racially. That would be like scientists in a thousand years digging up and testing corpses found in an old slave cemetery in the South, and then coming to the conclusion that ALL Americans were black. Furthermore, at no point in history were Egyptians ever “white Europeans”. Everyone knows what happens to whites in arid climates, which is why nature selected for dark skin in arid regions
You don’t know anything about greek history, I suppose.
151 mummies over a thousand year period. If Egypt were significantly Black in origin at least a good amount of that DNA would show up but there is none. You are desperately grasping at straws. Also Greeks were white and they ruled arid places for hundreds of years in during ancient times.
There were no Turks in that region at that time. Caucasian aka Proto-indo-Europeans. The Turks are from Altai and are Not Caucasian. Please note Turkic occupation is a recent event. Turks do not speak an indo-European language.
The Egyptians who built the pyramids were not white Europeans but close. They were Andites, a mighty race that dominated the world in those times. They gave rise to the present day white race.
They were Anatolian and I never really considered Anatolia European until the Mycenae invaded it. Anyways if you want a depiction of what they looked like they were a bit more like the Hittites then anything, based off of this genealogy.
Many years ago it had been proposed that Ancient Egyptians were “Mediterranean Caucasian”. There was a short period of rule by Nubians (whose country bordered the southern section of Egypt). In no way were the Ancient Egyptians “black” except for this brief interlude.
lol why inject “White European” in the study ?
it just says modern Egyptians are same as ancient Egyptians with the exception of an additional 8% of Sub Saharan DNA from their maternal side thanks to the Trans Saharan slave trade.
Que the bitter blacks who thought they were egyptian rulers, because we wuz kangz
L(thefuck)OL! #goodluckwiththat!
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