Ancient Egyptian genome reveals North African roots and Fertile Crescent ancestry
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 10:17
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, the age of the first pyramids, in research published in Nature.