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Re:The first genome data from ancient Egyptian mummies by nivertech on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:47AM (#14451340)
"from the archaeological site of Abusir el-Meleq, along the Nile River in Middle Egypt"

If they are from Lower Egypt that might be "Asiatics" Hyksos dynasty. From the map Abusir el-Meleq seems to be much closer to Lower (i.e. Northern part of) Egypt.

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Re:The first genome data from ancient Egyptian mummies by owlmirror on Thursday June 01, 2017 @07:33PM (#14465984)
Unlikely. The first sample is from around 1400 BCE. The last king of the Hyksos dynasty was expelled 1550 BCE. Their samples go to 400 CE. They did conclude a continuity of the population for the whole time. If these were really foreigners the must have came in at a steady stream for over 1300 years, with no local intermixing.
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