Ancient Egyptian history may be rewritten by a DNA bone test

A DNA bone test on a person living in the Neel Valley 4,500 years ago has given new lights on the rise of ancient Egyptian civilization.

His skeleton analysis suggests that he was 60 years old and probably worked as a potter, but also that the fifth of his DNA came from ancestors living 1,500 km away in another great civilization of that time, Mesopotamia or modern day in Iraq.

This is the first biological proof of the link between the two and can help explain how Egypt was transformed into one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth from an uneven collection of farming communities.

Conclusions give new weight to the fact that writing and agriculture originated through the exchange of people and ideas between these two ancient worlds.

Professor Pontus Scoglund, a lead researcher at the Francis Cricch Institute in London, told BBC News that it can throw new lights on individuals from incidents and past, which allows black and white historical facts to burst into life with technicolor details due to being able to extract and read DNA from ancient bones.

He said, “If we get more DNA information and from the time we know with archaeological, cultural and written information, keep it shoulder with it, then it will be very exciting.”

Our understanding of our past is drawn into part from written records, often an account by rich and powerful, mostly about rich and powerful.

Biological methods are giving historians and scientists a new tool to see history through the eyes of common people.

The DNA was taken from a bone in the inner ear of a person’s remains in Nuverat, a village, 265 km south of Cairo.

He died 4,500 and 4,800 years ago, which was a transformational moment in the emergence of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Archaeological evidence indicated that both areas must have been in touch at least 10,000 years ago when people in Mesopotamia started farming and making animals domesticated, leading to an agricultural society.

Many scholars believe that this social and technical revolution may have affected similar development in ancient Egypt – but so far there is no direct evidence of contact.

Edeline Morez Jacobs, who analyzed the remains as part of his PhD at Liverpool John Mores University, says this is the first clear-cut evidence of the important migration of the people and therefore information between two centers of civilization at that time.

“You first have two fields developing writing systems, so archaeologists believe they were in touch and exchanging ideas. Now we have evidence that they were.

“We hope that future DNA samples from ancient Egypt can expand at a time when this movement from West Asia began properly and its boundary started.”

The man was buried in a ceramic pot in a ceramic pot in a ceramic pot. They were buried before artificial mammification standard exercises, which may have helped preserve their DNA.

By examining chemicals in his teeth, the research team was able to understand what he ate, and determined from him that he had probably grown in Egypt.

But the scientific detective story does not stop there.

Prof. Joel Irish at Liverpool John Murce University made a detailed analysis of the skeleton to make a man picture as a person.

He said, “What I wanted to do was to find out who this boy was, let’s learn as much as possible about him, what was his age, he had height, what he did for a living and to personalize the whole thing instead of treating him as a cold specimen.”

The bone structure indicated that the man was between 45 and 65 years old, although evidence of arthritis pointed to the upper end of the scale. He was just 5 feet 2 inches long, which was still short.

Prof. Irish was also able to establish that he was probably a potter. The hook -shaped bone had increased behind his skull, indicating that he had seen very low. The bones of their seat are expanded to size, suggesting that he sat on hard surfaces for a long time. His weapons further showed evidence of the widespread movement, and there were marks on his arms where his muscles increased, showing that he was used to lift heavy objects.

American -born Academic told BBC News, “It shows that he has worked. He has worked throughout his life.”

Dr. Linus Gordland Flink reported that it was only due to a tremendous stroke of fate that the skeleton was available to study and reveal its historical mysteries.

“It was excavated in 1902 and donated to the World Museum Liverpool, where it survived the bomb blasts during blitz, which destroyed most of the human remains in their collection. We are now able to tell the person’s story, finding that some of their dynasties have come from the staunch semi -chandrakar, at this time they expose the mixture between groups,” they said.

New research has been Published in journal nature,

A DNA bone test on a person living in the Neel Valley 4,500 years ago has given new lights on the rise of ancient Egyptian civilization.

The analysis of his skeleton suggests that the fifth of his DNA came from ancestors living 1,500 km away in the second great civilization of that time, Mesopotamia or modern day in Iraq.

This is the first biological evidence of relations between the two civilizations, and can help explain how Egypt was transformed into one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth from an uneven collection of farming communities.

Conclusions give new weight to the fact that writing and agriculture originated through the exchange of people and ideas between these two ancient worlds.