Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egyptian sourdough

Re:Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egypt... by Bayart on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:19AM (#24916121)

>Modern Egyptians have almost no dna connection to ancient Egyptians.

That's just false. Modern Egyptians are quite clearly and cleanly descended from Bronze Age Egyptians. There's quite a bit of African and Arabic input, but not to the point of the population being unrecognizable.

It's nearly impossible to replace a settled, agricultural population with immigration. There needs to be active, systemic policy of ethnic purge.

It would be a fair point to say they have little to no cultural connection to pre-Islamic Egypt, but bringing genetic into the mix is specious.

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Re:Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egypt... by ralfd on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:10AM (#24917430)

Did you read the linked article by parent poster? There could be maybe made an argument that Copts are the descendants of ancient Egyptians:

https://mobile.twitter.com/bewilderedcopt/status/10817763566...

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Re:Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egypt... by ummonk on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:21AM (#24917491)

All the linked article showed is that they gained 8% sub-saharan ancestry. That's not much of a shift.

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Re:Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egypt... by rozab on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:47AM (#24919316)

I've seen a lot of ethnonationalist rhetoric online by middle eastern christian groups stating that they are the true heirs to the region, and that this is justifiable by genetics. I would take such claims with a large wheelbarrow of salt.

Looking further up that thread, someone else said:

>And BTW the Coptic Christians in Egypt are the REAL Egyptians not Arab invaders.

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Re:Xbox creator Seamus Blackley baked a 4,500-year-old Egypt... by teshier-A on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:10AM (#24919631)

It seems to be the scientific consensus. I personally don't think genetics carry any hereditary claim to a thousand years old culture but it always bothers me to see people go against state of the art scientific conclusions (unless they have good evidence of their own).

>Copts share the same main ancestral component than North African and Middle East populations (dark blue), supporting a common origin with Egypt (or other North African/Middle Eastern populations). They are known to be the most ancient population of Egypt and at k = 4 (Fig.3), they show their own component (dark green) different from the current Egyptian population which is closer to the Arabic population of Qatar.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4446898/

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