Posted on 10/01/2021 7:34:37 PM PDT by blueplum
The faces of three ancient Egyptian men who lived up to 2,797 years ago have been reconstructed using genetic data extracted from their mummified remains.
It is the first time such a technique has been used on human DNA of that age.
The trio came from Abusir el-Meleq, an ancient city on a floodplain to the south of Cairo, and are estimated to have been buried some time between 780 BC and 5 AD....
...'This is the first time comprehensive DNA phenotyping has been performed on human DNA of this age,' Parabon said in a statement.
The firm's experts found that the three Egyptian men, who belonged to an ancient Nile community and are estimated to have lived between 2,023 and 2,797 years ago, had light brown skin with dark eyes and hair.
Interestingly, their genetic makeup was closer to that of modern individuals in the Mediterranean or the Middle East than it was to modern Egyptians....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Looks like a TSA watchlist...
Hijackers?
Very interesting, thanks for the post.
Just tossing this suggestion out there, but maybe we get the whole bat virus thing under control before we start messing with mummy DNA. It was hard enough to find toilet paper last year without mummies being in the mix.
Mo, Larry and Ali Baba.
The “we wuz kangs” groups are the hardest hit.
Egypt was probably a nice place 2800 years ago pre islam.
Yes, they look like the muslims who perpetrated 9/11.
I highly doubt that they had hairstyles/haircuts similar to what’s shown. But, the Obama face in the middle is the great, great, great, great, great...etc, of the Kenyan.
One on the left looks like the 9-11 leader.
One in the center looks a bit gay. Didn’t know they were into that, so long ago.
It says in a Smithsonian article that modern Egyptians have more sub-Sahara Africa in their DNA. Wonder if that was from Ethiopians because they were mentioned in ancient literature and in the Bible. Ethiopia seems to have DNA from about everywhere you can think of (except Australia and the Americas), and they have ancient ties to Egypt and Israel.
Mohammed Atta...
Alexandria had a pretty decent library. No internet though...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
I would like it better if they took some DNA from a living person they’d never seen and then built a face from that, to compare with the real person to see how close they got.
thanks, Gov’ner :)
I honestly believe that was a ringer thrown in for "diversity" sake. It's all bogus. Everything is political now, so ancient Egypt had to be made "diverse" too. It's all a load of crap. LOL.
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