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Topic	Were the Ancient Egyptians Black?
Ammonitida 10/06/17 9:31:47 AM #24:	Asherlee10 posted... It looks like officially, no one knows the extent of what races were dominant (see the wiki article), but it looks like for the most part they were closest to Israelis and Jordanites. https://www.nature.com/news/mummy-dna-unravels-ancient-egyptians-ancestry-1.22069 The study, published on 30 May in Nature Communications1, includes data from 90 mummies buried between 1380 bc, during Egypts New Kingdom, and ad 425, in the Roman era. The findings show that the mummies closest kin were ancient farmers from a region that includes present-day Israel and Jordan. Modern Egyptians, by contrast, have inherited more of their DNA from central Africans. Archaeological discoveries and historical documents suggest close ties between Egypt and the Middle East, They were J2s (Y-DNA). There was a recent genetic study on the most ancient of Greeks and Minoans and they were also found to be J2s. J2s essentially founded civilization as we know it. <cite>Ammonitida posted [p:887915467] in Were the A... [t:75849661]...</cite> <quote><cite>Asherlee10 posted...</cite> <quote>It looks like officially, no one knows the extent of what races were dominant (see the wiki article), but it looks like for the most part they were closest to Israelis and Jordanites. https://www.nature.com/news/mummy-dna-unravels-ancient-egyptians-ancestry-1.22069 The study, published on 30 May in Nature Communications1, includes data from 90 mummies buried between 1380 bc, during Egypts New Kingdom, and ad 425, in the Roman era. The findings show that the mummies closest kin were ancient farmers from a region that includes present-day Israel and Jordan. Modern Egyptians, by contrast, have inherited more of their DNA from central Africans. Archaeological discoveries and historical documents suggest close ties between Egypt and the Middle East,</quote> They were J2s (Y-DNA). There was a recent genetic study on the most ancient of Greeks and Minoans and they were also found to be J2s. J2s essentially founded civilization as we know it.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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