03/07/2025
Scientists Decode Full DNA of Ancient Egyptian Man Revealing Surprising Ancestry
Final facial depiction of the Nuwayrat individual. Credit: Adeline Morez Jacobs / CC BY 4.0 Scientists have managed to decode the full DNA of an ancient Egyptian man for the first time, revealing that he carried ancestry from both North Africa and the region historically known as Mesopotamia. The breakthrough study sheds new light on how ancient populations may have moved and mixed across the early Middle East and North Africa. The man lived over 5,000 years ago, during Egypt?s Old Kingdom period?a time...
