Ancient Egyptian history may be rewritten by DNA bone test
Tests on the skull could give new insights into ancient history/ A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. An analysis of his skeleton shows he was 60 years old and possibly worked as a potter, but also that a fifth of his DNA came from ancestors living 1,500km away in the other great civilisation of the time, in Mesopotamia or modern day Iraq. It is the first biological evidence of links between the two and could help explain how Egypt was ...
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