Let's talk about the race of the inhabitants of the second most mentioned place in the Bible Kemet (ancient Egypt):
[FONT=Verdana, Arial]^Amarna period pharaohs
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial]Three months ago another study was conducted on Ramses III and his son concluding that they were E1b1a carriers:
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial][FONT=Verdana, Arial]This is the current distribution of that particular haplogroup.
[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial]The Dnatribes analysis of the results from the above [/FONT]study:
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These recent genetic studies all indicate that the ancient Egyptians have a closer genetic relationship to modern populations across Sub Saharan Africa and particularly the Nilotic populations of the Great Lakes region of Africa. The strong cultural connection between the ancient Egyptians and the modern peoples of the Upper Nile/Great Lakes region has been noted by scholars for over a century now:
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The segment below details the continued cultural/religious traditions of the Nilotic descendants of the earliest ancient Egyptians:
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Anthropological research consistently concludes that the earliest ancient Egyptians were black Africans who were most closely related to various types of black Africans seen throughout more southerly regions Africa today. The ancient Nile Valley populations were essentially bands of various different black African tribes (ancestors of the West African Wolof, Igbos, Yoruba, Bemeleke, Akan, Hausa, Ewe, Central African Congolese and Nilotic populations, South African Zulu populations ect) who retreated to the Nile Valley from the once fertile Sahara (see the documentary above).
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial]^Amarna period pharaohs
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial]Geographical analysis of the Amarna mummies was performed using their autosomal STR profiles based on 8 tested loci.Results are summarized in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 1. Maps forindividual Amarna mummies are included in Figures 2-8 in the Appendix.
Discussion: Average MLI scores in Table 1 indicate the STR profiles of the Amarna mummies would be most frequent in present day populations of several African regions: including the Southern African (average MLI 326.94), African Great Lakes (average MLI 323.76), and Tropical West African (average MLI 83.74) regions.
These regional matches do not necessarily indicate an exclusively African ancestry for the
Amarna pharaonic family. However, results indicate these ancient individuals inherited some alleles that today are more frequent in populations of Africa than in other parts of the world (such as D18S51=19 and D21S11=34).[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial]Three months ago another study was conducted on Ramses III and his son concluding that they were E1b1a carriers:
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[/FONT]We amplified 16 Y chromosomal, short tandem repeats (AmpF\STR Yfiler PCR amplification kit; Applied Biosystems).........Genetic kinship analyses revealed identical haplotypes in both mummies (table 1⇓ using the Whit Athey’s haplogroup predictor, we determined the Y chromosomal haplogroup E1b1a
[FONT=Verdana, Arial][FONT=Verdana, Arial]This is the current distribution of that particular haplogroup.
[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial]The Dnatribes analysis of the results from the above [/FONT]study:
These results indicate that both Ramesses III and Unknown Man E (possibly his son Pentawer) shared an ancestral component with present day populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.[FONT=Verdana, Arial].[/FONT]A previous issue of DNA Tribes Digest identified African related ancestry for King Tut and other royal mummies from the Amarna Period. In this issue, results indicate that the later pharaoh Ramesses III also inherited alleles that are most frequent in present day populations of Sub-Saharan Africa. This provides additional, independent evidence of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (possibly among several ancestral components) for pharaonic families of ancient Egypt[FONT=Verdana, Arial]....[/FONT]In addition, these DNA match results in present day world regions might in part express population changes in Africa after the time of Ramesses III. In particular, DNA matches in present day populations of Southern Africa and the African Great Lakes might to some degree reflect genetic links with ancient populations (formerly living closer to New Kingdom Egypt) that have expanded southwards in the Nilotic and Bantu migrations of the past 3,000 years (see Figure 1)
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These recent genetic studies all indicate that the ancient Egyptians have a closer genetic relationship to modern populations across Sub Saharan Africa and particularly the Nilotic populations of the Great Lakes region of Africa. The strong cultural connection between the ancient Egyptians and the modern peoples of the Upper Nile/Great Lakes region has been noted by scholars for over a century now:
[youtube]3w1x8nVD4xs&[/youtube]
[youtube]uZKMzU207MM[/youtube]
The segment below details the continued cultural/religious traditions of the Nilotic descendants of the earliest ancient Egyptians:
[youtube]Z4nBK381bBg[/youtube]
Anthropological research consistently concludes that the earliest ancient Egyptians were black Africans who were most closely related to various types of black Africans seen throughout more southerly regions Africa today. The ancient Nile Valley populations were essentially bands of various different black African tribes (ancestors of the West African Wolof, Igbos, Yoruba, Bemeleke, Akan, Hausa, Ewe, Central African Congolese and Nilotic populations, South African Zulu populations ect) who retreated to the Nile Valley from the once fertile Sahara (see the documentary above).
Cont.On this basis, many have postulated that the Badarians are relatives to South African populations (Morant, 1935 G. Morant, A study of predynastic Egyptian skulls from Badari based on measurements taken by Miss BN Stoessiger and Professor DE Derry, Biometrika 27 (1935), pp. 293–309.Morant, 1935; Mukherjee et al., 1955; Irish and Konigsberg, 2007). The archaeological evidence points to this relationship as well. (Hassan, 1986) and (Hassan, 1988) noted similarities between Badarian pottery and the Neolithic Khartoum type, indicating an archaeological affinity among Badarians and Africans from more southern regions. Furthermore, like the Badarians, Naqada has also been classified with other African groups, namely the Teita (Crichton, 1996; Keita, 1990).
Nutter (1958) noted affinities between the Badarian and Naqada samples, a feature that Strouhal (1971) attributed to their skulls possessing “Negroid” traits. Keita (1992), using craniometrics, discovered that the Badarian series is distinctly different from the later Egyptian series, a conclusion that is mostly confirmed here. In the current analysis, the Badari sample more closely clusters with the Naqada sample and the Kerma sample. However, it also groups with the later pooled sample from Dynasties XVIII–XXV. -- Godde K. (2009) An Examination of Nubian and Egyptian biological distances: Support for biological diffusion or in situ development? Homo. 2009;60(5):389-404.
"Overall, when the Egyptian crania are evaluated in a Near Eastern (Lachish) versus African (Kerma, Jebel Moya, Ashanti) context) the affinity is with the Africans. The Sudan and Palestine are the most appropriate comparative regions which would have 'donated' people, along with the Sahara and Maghreb. Archaeology validates looking to these regions for population flow (see Hassan 1988)... Egyptian groups showed less overall affinity to Palestinian and Byzantine remains than to other African series, especially Sudanese."S. O. Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993) 129-54
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As can be read in the last citation, the indigenous black African physical variation amongst the early ancient Egyptian populations was great indeed."Analysis of crania is the traditional approach to assessing ancient population origins, relationships, and diversity. In studies based on anatomical traits and measurements of crania, similarities have been found between Nile Valley crania from 30,000, 20,000 and 12,000 years ago and various African remains from more recent times (see Thoma 1984; Brauer and Rimbach 1990; Angel and Kelley 1986; Keita 1993). Studies of crania from southern predynastic Egypt, from the formative period (4000-3100 B.C.), show them usually to be more similar to the crania of ancient Nubians, Ku****es, Saharans, or modern groups from the Horn of Africa than to those of dynastic northern Egyptians or ancient or modern southern Europeans." (S. O. Y and A.J. Boyce, "The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians", in Egypt in Africa, Theodore Celenko (ed), Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 20-33)
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