A company called Parabon has worked with the Max Planck Institute to recreate three faces of ancient Egyptian mummies. Two mummies are from Ancient Egypt proper, either the 3rd Intermediate Period or Late Period (776–569 BC and 769–560 BC), and the most recent mummy is from Greco-Roman Egypt, during the Ptolemaic dynasty (97–2 BC). Two of the samples, the oldest and most recent, have noteworthy Southern European ancestry.
The article title lied, by the way. There really isn’t much analysis to share, it’s all in the one image below.
All in all, pretty cool stuff.
Thuletide 
Nice find! Looks like they were exactly what they were always supposed to be and not black people.
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I’m surprised these samples didn’t have more North African ancestry tbh, I’ve seen other Egyptian mummies that were almost indistinguishable from modern Egyptians (minus some extra Sub-Saharan African ancestry). Maybe the study authors used some weird source populations for the admixture analysis.
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There were European mummies too whose descendants ceased exist upon race mixing.
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Yeah, it’s almost completely absent here, which is odd.
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Off-topic question but you seen the new God of War trailer?
There’s a blaq chik at the end….
Thoughts?
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I check it every month or so will get back to you then
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Do you know of any other genetic studies/important takeaways from Egypt? It’s often repeated that Ramses II had red hair and came from a family of redheads (Libyan Berbers, IIRC, which would place him genetically close to the Sami), but I wonder if such detailed information is available about him? Or, for that matter, haplogroups/origins of other Egyptian kings? (Tutankhamun was R1b, notably.)
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There was one older study on Egyptian mummies that found they were the same as modern Egyptians but with no Sub-Saharan Ancestry but other than that I don’t know of any. Sami aren’t related to Berbers btw. Sami were East Asian people who mixed with Northeastern Europeans and later Nordic peoples.
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Those graphs don’t make sense. Middle has lighter skin than right? Where is Arabian ancestry coming from, do they mean east African?
Anything from the 3rd int. period onward is meaningless anyway. Egypt became very multi-racial, first with Libyans and Cushites, then with Greco-Romans. Look at the Faiyum portraits, clearly the population was largely mixed race by the Roman period.
And as expected, the Nubian ancestry made the most impact on their appearance, and likely their IQ as well (Egypt was a glorified wheat farm at that point. Only Alexandria had any intellectual worth).
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the graphs show probability and ‘Arabia’ means people of the Arabian peninsula.
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