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Mummy DNA unravels ancient Egyptians’ ancestry.
Both types of genomic material showed that ancient Egyptians shared little DNA with modern sub-Saharan Africans. Instead, their closest relatives were people living during the Neolithic and Bronze ages in an area known as the Levant. Strikingly, the mummies were more closely related to ancient Europeans and Anatolians than to modern Egyptians.

https://www.nature.com/news/mummy-dna-unravels-ancient-egyptians-ancestry-1.22069