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rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
gonna go out on a limb and say that the ancient egyptians looked the same as modern egyptians - you know, their descendants

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rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Fandyien posted:

interesting, i had always heard that the arab invasions profoundly changed the demography of egypt, do you have any good links? i'm just curious

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_history_of_Egypt posted:

Egypt has experienced several invasions during its history. However, these do not seem to account for more than about 10% overall of current Egyptians ancestry when the DNA evidence of the ancient mitochondrial DNA and modern Y chromosomes is considered.

In general, various DNA studies have found that the gene frequencies of modern North African populations are intermediate between those of the Horn of Africa and Eurasia,[17] though possessing a greater genetic affinity with the populations of Eurasia than they do with Africa.[3][3][4] The present population of the Sahara is Caucasoid in the extreme north, with a fairly gradual increase of Negroid component as one goes south.[6][18][19] The results of these genetic studies is consistent with the historical record, which records significant bidirectional contact between Egypt and Nubia, and the Levant/Middle East within the last few thousand years, but with general population continuity from the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt up to the modern day era.[20][21]
Ethnic cleansing and racial genocide is a recent phenomena, when most ancient countries are invaded the vast majority of the population stays put. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, etc.

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
exodus is a boring loving story just like every other story the bible, at least greeks could make their religion interesting

plot is way to predictable, would not read again

rudatron fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Jul 28, 2014

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