Originally Posted by
Isleño
Well that’s a whole new topic to comment on because there’s a story to it. Basically before 50,000 years ago, North Africa was only inhabited by Africans. But around 45,000-50,000 years ago, the first wave of migrants from West Eurasia arrived and settled. Then several waves of settlers from West Eurasia arrived and the bulk of them arrived 10,000 kya-16,000 kya. This massive continuing migration that lasted for millennia stretched from what is today Morocco to Egypt. The ancestors of the ancient Egyptians were among this migration group. The ancestors of the ancient Egyptians displaced the Nilotic Africans living in Egypt along the Nile for the most part, long before the creation of Egyptian dynasties and ancient Egypt as we know it. There is possible evidence that there could have been a race war. They pushed most of the Nilotic Africans further south to the regions known as Nubia and Kush.
That’s the history in a nutshell.
Actually sister subclades of my maternal haplogroup U6b1a, belonging to the main haplogroup U6, have been found among the ancient Egyptian mummies sequenced from Abusir El Meleq (U6a, U6a2, U6a3), (I’m Canarian Spanish ancestry so although my paternal haplogroup is Iberian, my maternal haplogroup is North African). This is because most all North Africans descend from this huge West Eurasian migration into North Africa so all of us that descend from this migration share haplogroups. Also, among the ancient Egyptian haplogroups, many are shared with West Asians and Europeans as well, connecting both regions to Egypt and North Africa through a West Eurasian genetic connection.
For instance, Governor Djehutynakht of the 11th dynasty had a haplogroup that was also found in ancient remains from Lebanon and also Europe.
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