Washington (AP) – Old DNA revealed a genetic link between cultures Ancient Egypt and MesopotamiaAccording to the published research on Wednesday in Nature Magazine.
The researchers hiered the entire genomics of a significant preserved skeleton in a closed funeral bowl at an Egyptian grave dating back between 495 and 4,880 years.
Four fifty of the genome showed links to North Africa and the surrounding region Egypt. But the fifth of the genome showed ties to the region in the Middle East between the Tigris and the Euphrates River, known as the fertile crescent, where the civilization of the Mesopotamia flourished.
“The result is very important” because it is “the first evidence of what was hurt” in the previous work. “
Previous archaeological evidence showed commercial links between Egypt and countries of Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery making techniques and photographic writing systems. While similarities in dental structures suggested the possible ancestral ties, the new study shows genetic relationships.
Antoine, who did not participate in the study, said that the Nile River “is likely to serve as an old path, which facilitates the movement of not only cultures and ideas, but people.”
The skeleton was found in an Egyptian grave complex at the archaeological site Nuwayrat, inside a carved room of a rock hill. Joel Irish from the University of Liverpool John Morris, a co-author and biological scientist Joel Irch of Liverpool University, said that the tear analysis on the skeleton-and the presence of arthritis in specific joints-indicates that the man was probably in the 1960s and may have been working as a porcelain.
The man lived before or near the beginning of the ancient kingdom in ancient Egypt, when Upper and Lower Egypt was unified as one country, which led to a period of relative political stability and cultural innovation – including building the pyramids of Giza.
“This is the time when the central power allowed the formation of ancient Egypt as we know it,” said Linus Gerland Flink, co -author, co -author Linus Gertland, a genetic scientist at the University of Aberdeen.
Almost at the same time, the countries of the Sumerian city were entrenched in Mesopotamia and the cuneiform appeared as a writing system.
The researchers said that the analysis of other old DNA samples is required to obtain a clearer image of the extent and timing of the movements between the cultural center.
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