Sealed inside a ceramic funerary pot for over 4,500 years, an Old Kingdom man has become the first ancient Egyptian to undergo whole genome analysis. The man had North African Neolithic ancestry, mixed with a 20% genetic contribution from the Eastern Fertile Crescent [5839×5583]

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    1. [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09195-5](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09195-5)

      [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Kingdom_individual_(NUE001)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Kingdom_individual_(NUE001))

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