2018 BREAKING NEWS: MIDDLE KINGDOM HIGH ELITE OFFICIAL DJEHUTYNAKHT EURASIAN

[Kamal900]

By ASuperEgyptian:



Blacks weren't Kangz n Shieet.

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

By ASuperEgyptian:



Blacks weren't Kangz n Shieet.

Egyptians were pharoahs.

[Isleño]

I came across this study of Governor Djehutynakht just after it was released. Fascinating. He was found in Middle Egypt, and dates to the 11th century (2010 BC) Middle Kingdom. His maternal haplogroup was U5b2b5, West Eurasian in origin.

“The mtGenome profile independently obtained from the tooth by the FBI and HMS laboratories were identical and can be found in Table S2. The haplotype (deposited in GenBank under accession number MG736653) belongs to mitochondrial DNA lineage U5b2b5, but the specific sequence has not been previously reported in the 35,942 mtGenomes stored in the NCBI GenBank database (as of October 2017). The sequence closest to the mummy’s belongs to a contemporary individual from Lebanon (KT779192 [67]); however, the two haplotypes still differ at five positions, three of them in the control region (CR). A comparison between the mummy CR and the 26,127 CR sequences from the EMPOP database produced no match.”

The authors go on to align Djehutynakht’s with one of the mummies recently tested from Abusir El Meleq:

“The Djehutynakht sequence was also compared to available ancient human DNA sequences (Table S4). Not surprisingly, no direct matches to the Djehutynakht sequence have been reported. However, related U5b2b sequences have been observed in ancient human remains from Europe, and a haplogroup U5b2c1 haplotype was recently discovered in 2000-year-old remains from Phoenicia [67]. When only the mtDNA sequences recovered from ancient Egyptian human remains are considered, the Djehutynakht sequence most closely resembles a U5a lineage from sample JK2903, a 2000-year-old skeleton from Abusir el-Meleq [74].”

http://http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/9/3/135/pdf

I’m willing to bet, autosomally, Djehutynakht is on par with the three genome-wide tested mummies from the pre-Ptolemaic/Ptolemaic era, showing continuity through the ages in ancient Egypt. Djehutynakht is from the 11th Dynasty, from a time before any foreign invasion or immigration whatsoever. So there should be no doubt his behalf. It would be nice to get another genome-wide or at least autosomal results from him or others in his time period.

On another note, there is another study out on two brothers from Upper Egypt (southern Egypt) and they also have a West Eurasian origin mtDNA, but of localized African mutation, M1a1. One of the genome-wide tested mummies of Abusir El Meleq had maternal haplogroup M1a1 and was found to be West Eurasian in origin. I’m guessing that a similar DNA profile would be on par with the Abusir mummy test results for instance with the brother Nakht-Ankh, as his mummy mask looks very much West Eurasian:



http://https://www.sciencedirect.com...52409X17305631

[Kamal900]

Egyptians were pharoahs.

We have genetic results of the ordinary Egyptians from last year, and it's confirmed that they're genetically middle easterners no different from their modern descendants, Southern Levantines and Arabian. Also, the Egyptian samples from the new kingdom lack the steppe like admixture that is found canaanites from a much earlier period which disproves the notion that they're immigrants from the Levant. The Egyptian sample from the Roman period though is indeed more shifted towards the Levant, but not by much as he clustered more closer to Palestinians than to the Lebanese and the Syrians.