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Ancestors of ancient Egyptians came from Europe and Middle East, says study
[RT] Ancient Egyptians were more closely related to people from the Middle East and Europe than those from Central Africa, according to a genetic analysis of mummies’ DNA.A team of international scientists from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany analyzed the DNA of 90 Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE. The Egyptians had been around for something over thousand years before 1400 B.C, a date which is contemporary with the Aryan expansion from Central Asia. Breasted, writing in 1905, or published anyway, was of the opinion they were Libyans. Black Lives Matter and such pseudohistorians say they were black, based on an artistic style from one Middle Kingdom reign, ignoring the Egyptians' own representations of themselves (men were dark red, women white) and their representations of Africans. Amazingly, the team’s findings revealed that the mummies’ closest kin were ancient farmers from the Levant – a historical term for a large geographic area in the eastern Mediterranean that includes Israel and Jordan. The study, published in Nature, also claims that ancient Egyptians were closely related to Neolithic populations from the Anatolian Peninsula, an area made up of the majority of modern-day Turkey and Europe.
[DW] Humans and great apes parted ways in Africa with the development of the first pre-humans, many experts believe. But there might be a completely different explanation: Are the Balkans the cradle of humanity? The lines of descent of today's chimpanzees and humans may have split in Europe and not - as is often believed - in Africa, according to researchers at a German university. What is more, this evolutionary step may have occurred a few hundred thousand years earlier than previously assumed, the researchers say. The revolutionary theory was presented in the periodical "PLOS One" by a team of researchers led by Madelaine Böhme at the Tubingen-based Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment (HEP). Dental root as evidence The team headed by Böhme examined the only two existing specimens of the "Graecopithecus freybergi" hominid, nicknamed "El Graeco" by researchers. This tooth of the "Graecopithecus freybergi" was discovered in Bulgaria The hominid species includes humans and their fossil ancestors as well as some of the great apes. The specimens concerned are a lower jaw found in Greece (above photo) and a tooth discovered in Bulgaria. After detailed analyses, the research team concluded that Graecopithecus was a pre-human species hitherto unknown. For example, the dental roots were, for the most part, fused - a feature that is characteristic of humans and their extinct relatives. Great apes usually have separate dental roots. "We were surprised by our results, as pre-humans were previously known only from sub-Saharan Africa," said Jochen Fuss, one of the researchers involved in the study. After analyzing the sediments from which the fossils had been retrieved, the research team dated the lower jaw to 7.175 million years and the tooth to 7.24 million years ago. That makes the two specimens older than than the hitherto oldest known pre-human from Africa, Sahelanthropus, which is dated to about 6 to 7 million years ago. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-01 |
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