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This is wrong. DNA studies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Mesopotamia_relations#2017_DNA_Genome_Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93
by bmikaili 4y ago
This is wrong. DNA studies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Mesopotamia_relations#2017_DNA_Genome_Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Mesopotamia_rela...) show that modern day egyptians are not really the closest to ancient egyptians, they just live on the land that was once ancient egyptian.
- sct202 4y agoYour citation states continuity with additional ancestry mixing in from later migrations: >The study stated that "our genetic time transect suggests genetic continuity between the Pre-Ptolemaic, Ptolemaic and Roman populations of Abusir el-Meleq, indicating that foreign rule impacted the [native] population only to a very limited degree at the genetic level."
- DoItToMe81 4y agoYeah, modern Egyptians are directly related to ancient Egyptians, with the biggest change being that they have significantly more subsaharan DNA than any of the tested ancient Egyptians.