A 2017 Nature Communications study by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History analyzed 151 mummies from Abusir el-Meleq, recovering mitochondrial genomes from 90 and genome-wide data from three. The ancient Egyptians showed greater genetic affinity to Neolithic Levantine and Bronze Age Anatolian populations than to modern Egyptians—not near genetic identity. Modern Egyptians carried more Sub-Saharan African ancestry, estimated at 6–15% of their ancestry from post-Roman-period Sub-Saharan African populations. The video's claim that the ancient Egyptians belonged to the same gene pool from which Indo-European and Indo-Iranian migrations originated is not supported by the study.
2017 study: ancient Egyptian mummies closer to ancient Near Easterners than modern Egyptians
Key facts
- A 2017 Nature Communications study by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History examined 151 mummies from Abusir el-Meleq, recovering mitochondrial genomes from 90 and genome-wide data from three individuals.
- The ancient samples had greater genetic affinity to Neolithic Levantine and Bronze Age Anatolian populations than to modern Egyptians; they were not almost genetically identical to those populations.
- The study estimated that 6–15% of modern Egyptian ancestry came from Sub-Saharan African populations that inhabited Egypt after the Roman period.
- The video's claim that ancient Egyptians belonged to the same gene pool from which Indo-European and Indo-Iranian migrations originated is not supported by the study.
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Of the many burials discovered here, 151 mummies were used in a 2017 DNA study comparing the mtDNA of Ancient Egyptians and modern Egyptians.
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