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Everything we’ve learnt from first DNA of ancient Egyptian
The first complete DNA study of an Ancient Egyptian has revealed he was probably a celebrated potter who was given an oddly luxurious burial. The skeleton of a middle-aged man, who lived between 4,500 and 4,800 years ago, was found crammed into a ceramic pot in a tomb cut into the hillside at Nuwayrat, around 165 miles south of Cairo.
Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...
Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...
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Scientists just sequenced the oldest and most complete ancient Egyptian human genome everIn a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...
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Buried in a Pot, Preserved by Time: Ancient Egyptian Skeleton Yields First Full GenomeMore than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed ...
Marriage contracts and family roles reveal limits to female independence in ancient Egypt, as eldest sons held lasting power.
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