Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Ancient Egyptian history may be rewritten by DNA bone test
Emerged around 3150 BCE, Ancient Egypt was a civilization that
flourished along the Nile River in northeastern Africa. It’s known for its
monuments like pyramids and temples, complex writing system, agriculture, architecture,
and astronomy. Around the same time, approximately 1,500 km northeast of
Egyptian civilization, another ancient civilization flourished in the region
between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (today’s Turkey, Syria, and Iraq),
called Mesopotamia. It created city-states, writing systems, and laws, as well
as advanced mathematics and astronomy. Did these two ancient civilizations interact
with each other? A DNA bone test on a man who lived in the Nile Valley 4,500
years ago shows that one-fifth of his DNA matches that of Mesopotamians. This
is the first proof of the interactions between the two civilizations. The ancient
Egyptian’s remains were discovered in a ceramic pottery coffin in 1902. Future discoveries
and analysis will reveal more about ancient civilizations.
Read the article and learn about what could have happened over 4 millennia
ago along the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers.
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