[SunkenCiv]

Full title is "Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods".

Full list of authors: Verena J. Schuenemann, Alexander Peltzer, Beatrix Welte, W. Paul van Pelt, Martyna Molak, Chuan-Chao Wang, Anja Furtwängler, Christian Urban, Ella Reiter, Kay Nieselt, Barbara Teßmann, Michael Francken, Katerina Harvati, Wolfgang Haak, Stephan Schiffels & Johannes Krause

[SpaceBar]

Race, race, race, race, race. It’s not just for obsessing anymore.

[Jim W N]

...an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods...

...including, but not exclusive to, post-nasal drip in the same genome...

[monkeyshine]

Coincidentally, this weekend I’ve been watching a dramatized documentary on Netflix about the Roman Empire. Throughout the Roman Republic era, and the Empire Era later, Rome was very dependent on Egyptian commerce particularly grain. Egypt paid tribute to Rome for centuries. They were allies and then later, about a century after the Anthony and Cleopatra era (apx 100 AD) Egypt became part of the Roman empire.

[2banana]

Egypt and all of north Africa was white. And then all Christian.

Then conquered by islamic armies, forced to convert and raped into what you see today.

[edwinland]

Interesting article but note it’s almost two years old, and there has been some caution since then about interpreting the results of one burial site too broadly.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Afrocentrists and such experts as Al Sharpton call the ancient Egyptians black. In Egyptian art you can find some individuals who appear to be black, but the Egyptians seem to have seen themselves as different from the definitely black people south of them. St. Paul was mistaken for an Egyptian at one point and there is no reason to think he looked black (entirely of Israelite ancestry as far as we know).

I recall a DNA study some time ago that estimated that 20% of Egyptian DNA is like sub-Saharan African DNA. Of course the modern percentages may be different because of sub-Saharan Africans being imported in post-Roman times thanks to the Muslim trans-Saharan slave trade.

[John S Mosby]

But, but, but..... were the Egyptians.... black— like Michael Jackson said they were? THAT’s the important genome to identify— and avoid talking about the social construct in the Roman Empire that did not have anything but slavery in mind for the Egyptian colony (despite Rome’s dependency on Egyptian grain through the Aventine markets, and supplying the outer Empire and Legions.

Really— this “sub saharan” genome-— it be black, rite? Not sepia like obamaumao and the muzlim slave masters of white slavers.

[TBP]

Ok, interesting, but how is it relevant?