Ancient Egyptian mtDNA

[Isleño]

This is the supplemental list containing all mummies sequenced for mitochondrial DNA from the Shuenemann et al. 2017 study on the Ancient Egyptians of Abusir El Meleq.

Notice the vast majority of mtDNA is Eurasian in origin. This includes pre-Ptolemaic, pre-Greco-Roman occupation mummies as well. Dates are given for each mummy. Earliest is dated 1388 BC.



https://www.nature.com/article-asset...s15694-s1.xlsx

[Isleño]

Bump

[Voskos]

cool

[Isleño]

cool

Yes nearly all of them have Eurasian mitochondrial DNA. The oldest one is 1388 BC, which is before Greco-Roman rule/settlement and has mtDNA J2a1a1.

[Voskos]

Yes nearly all of them have Eurasian mitochondrial DNA. The oldest one is 1388 BC, which is before Greco-Roman rule/settlement and has mtDNA J2a1a1.

most have Mena mtdna though.

[frankhammer]

A few HV too.

[Isleño]

most have Mena mtdna though.

Exactly. That's the most interesting part.

[Isleño]

A few HV too.

Yes, that's right.

[wvwvw]

Yes nearly all of them have Eurasian mitochondrial DNA. The oldest one is 1388 BC, which is before Greco-Roman rule/settlement and has mtDNA J2a1a1.

In 1650 BC the Inachid branch of the Chaotic civilisation as the proto-Achaeans called themselves (Chaos = Achaeos) conquered the Peloponnese and became rulers of Egypt in 1628 BC. The Kronids had already made themselves Hyksos kings of Egypt since 1674 BC as well as rulers of Crete.

[Isleño]

In 1650 BC the Inachid branch of the Chaotic civilisation as the proto-Achaeans called themselves (Chaos = Achaeos) conquered the Peloponnese and became rulers of Egypt in 1628 BC. The Kronids had already made themselves Hyksos kings of Egypt since 1674 BC as well as rulers of Crete.

Yes, but the Hyksos were concentrated in the eastern Nile delta, mainly in the city of Avaris. Ahmose I sacked Avaris in 1550 BC and expelled the Hyksos, effectively ending the Hyksos rule (17th Dynasty) and occupation of the eastern Nile delta. Thus the indigenous 18th Dynasty and the New Kingdom began. Queen Hatshepsut recorded a second expulsion of remaining Hyksos in the 1400's BC. But again, this was the eastern delta. These mummies of Abusir were found in Middle Egypt, not the Nile Valley and the oldest mummies were from after the Hyksos were expelled.

3rd century BC Egyptian priest Manetho writes of the expulsion of the Hyksos in his "Aegyptiaca" (Tethmosis is Ahmose I):

"Tethmosis, son of Alisphragmuthosis, attempted to take the city by force and by siege with four hundred and eighty thousand men surrounding it. But he despaired of taking the place by siege, and concluded a treaty with them, that they should leave Egypt, and go, without any harm coming to them, wherever they wished. After the conclusion of the treaty they left with their families and chattels, not fewer than two hundred and forty thousand people, and crossed the desert into Syria. Fearing the Assyrians, who dominated over Asia at that time, they built a city in the country which we now call Judea. It was large enough to contain this great number of men and was called Jerusalem."

Nearly every mtDNA haplogroup found among the list of mummies in the OP tested are Eurasian.