That’s because those of us with the same or similar haplogroups are related down the line. Some it’s way down the line, others it’s not that far down.
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Well, ancient Egyptians were African adapted West Eurasians, so they share DNA with many similar peoples like North Africans, Middle Easterners, Anatolians and Europeans. But of course most of these are way down the line related, I would say nothing too recent. My own maternal haplogroup is North African, as I’m Canarian descent and I’m Iberian European admixed with North African, the North African being on the maternal line. I can say I’m can confidently say I’m a back migration descendant to North Africa just as the ancient Egyptians, but I’m not Egyptian at all. I’m just partially related to Egyptians down the line like any Mediterranean North African would be.
I don’t try to steal Egypt’s identity. That’s what Egypt-focused black Americans do.
Yes, race does exist. It has a biological side and a social side. Some only think it’s social, but that’s false thinking. Humans don’t look different because of a social construct only.
In my opinion based off of genetic studies including the three I named in earlier posts, (Abusir, Djehutynakht, two brothers) I think the ancient Egyptians were most genetically like Saudi Bedouins. They had similar amount of Natufian, Neolithic Iranian and Neolithic Anatolian on the Abusir study. But other Gedmatch results show them also similar to Levantines. If we consider haplogroups, there are some that have connections to the Levant, Europe and other parts,of the Middle East and Anatolia.
I know for sure they were not Sub-Saharan type Nilo-Saharan blacks because the DNA doesn’t equate nor does it equate for East Africans given the fact that East Africans didn’t become mulattoes until 3,000 years ago and were Sub-Saharan type Nilo-Saharan blacks before that. I have studies that prove this if you need some info on it.
With that said, after all that I’ve read and seen, I’m completely positive that Egyptians were similar to other West Eurasians from the Middle East, mainly the Levant and Arabia. There may be an uptick of SSA near the areas around the Nubian border, such as 30% SSA and 70% West Eurasian, but I think for the vast majority of Egypt they would be similar to the Abusir mummies.