Ancient Egyptian Facial Reconstructions

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3 Egyptian mummy faces revealed in stunning reconstruction (msn.com)

These were the same three from this study:

Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods | Nature Communications
 
This really has nothing to do with ancient Egypt.
More interesting will be the reconstruction, for example, from 2000-2500 BC or earlier.
 
This really has nothing to do with ancient Egypt.
More interesting will be the reconstruction, for example, from 2000-2500 BC or earlier.

These three individuals were about half-Natufian and the rest being more Iran_N and Anatolia_N. I would assume they would be even more Natufian-like before that time.
 
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These three individuals were about half-Natufian and the rest being more Iran_N and Anatolia_N. I would assume they would be even Natufian-like before that time.

Their phenotype is pretty diverse, but their genetics are pretty uniform.

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Iran_N came later to the Levant, vs the other ancestry.
 
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You can find Egyptians and North Africans like this today. Also interesting from the Greco-Roman period are the Fayyum Mummy portraits, which look fairly realistic.
 
These three individuals were about half-Natufian and the rest being more Iran_N and Anatolia_N. I would assume they would be even Natufian-like before that time.

Does it mean that natufian is close to african like one anthropologist opinion?

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It is a further surprise that the Epipalaeolithic Natufian of Israel from whom the Neolithic realm was assumed to arise has a clear link to Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Does it mean that natufian is close to african like one anthropologist opinion?

See Tunisia:
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And :
[h=1]Tunisia: Najla Bouden Romdhane named first female PM[/h]Two months after firing her predecessor and suspending parliament, President Saied tapped the engineering researcher to form a government.
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If I saw the guy on the right, walking on the street today, I would probably assume he was Puerto Rican.

So would I, and the one to the far left a very tan Mexican. Meanwhile, the one in the middle, if they hadn't made him so dark, wouldn't look out of place in Europe.

I've seen situations like this before. When people are really admixed, the phenotypes can fool you.

There have been quite a few good papers on New World Hispanics. Puerto Ricans have a mix of all three "continental groups": European, Asian (Amerindian), and African. However, the percentages vary quite a bit from individual to individual.

Mexicans only have about 5% SSA on average, with the rest being Spanish (usually) and Amerindian, and the "average" Mexican being about half Amerindian.
 
See Tunisia:
6B54Hsw.jpg


And :
Tunisia: Najla Bouden Romdhane named first female PM

Two months after firing her predecessor and suspending parliament, President Saied tapped the engineering researcher to form a government.

There is definitely some variety in Tunisia, but most Tunisians don't look like her. She could be southern French or Northern Italian. Given Tunisia's history that ancestry could actually be part of her make-up.

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They don't look much like the Egyptian reconstructions to me. They look more like Mediterraneans with about 20-25% SSA.
 
There is definitely some variety in Tunisia, but most Tunisians don't look like her. She could be southern French or Northern Italian. Given Tunisia's history that ancestry could actually be part of her make-up.

tunis-jan-13-2018-people-take-part-in-a-protest-634480.jpg


TUNISIA-GENERAL-STRIKE.jpg



They don't look much like the Egyptian reconstructions to me. They look more like Mediterraneans with about 20-25% SSA.

Agree as a whole, but on the average I see on the pictures, I would say rather 15% of SSA (of course, individuals have more, others less, as always). Just sliting hairs as often! I think that out of great towns, some great oppositions could exist between Tunisie regions cncerning SSA introgressions.
 
Target: Egyptian_1879bc:Nakht-Ankh
Distance: 3.9961% / 0.03996059
53.0Levant_Natufian_11.000bc
22.4Anatolia_Neolithic_Farmer_Barcin_6400bc
10.6Iran_Neolithic_Farmer_Ganj_8.200bc
7.8East_African_Nilotic_Dinka
5.4Caucasus_Hunter_Gatherer_7.728bc
0.8Iberomaurusian_Taforalt_Morocco_12550bc

Coordinates converted from k13 to g25 For Nakht-Ankh but the model is simple enough to be good.

Target: Egypt_Late_Period_780-560bc
Distance: 4.3173% / 0.04317302
52.2Levant_Natufian_11.000bc
29.6Anatolia_Neolithic_Farmer_Barcin_6400bc
9.8Caucasus_Hunter_Gatherer_7.728bc
6.4Iran_Neolithic_Farmer_Ganj_8.200bc
1.4Iberomaurusian_Taforalt_Morocco_12550bc
0.6East_African_Nilotic_Dinka


Target: Egyptian_Copt
Distance: 3.7966% / 0.03796614
49.0Levant_Natufian_11.000bc
28.8Anatolia_Neolithic_Farmer_Barcin_6400bc
10.2Iran_Neolithic_Farmer_Ganj_8.200bc
6.2Caucasus_Hunter_Gatherer_7.728bc
4.6East_African_Nilotic_Dinka
1.0Iberomaurusian_Taforalt_Morocco_12550bc
0.2West_African_Yoruba
Target: Egyptian
Distance: 3.1017% / 0.03101691
36.4Levant_Natufian_11.000bc
30.0Anatolia_Neolithic_Farmer_Barcin_6400bc
13.6Iran_Neolithic_Farmer_Ganj_8.200bc
6.4East_African_Nilotic_Dinka
6.2Caucasus_Hunter_Gatherer_7.728bc
4.2West_African_Yoruba
3.2Iberomaurusian_Taforalt_Morocco_12550bc

Code:
Egyptian_1879bc:Nakht-Ankh,0.0012,0.129,-0.044,-0.0965,-0.0031,-0.0534,-0.017,-0.0078,0.0551,-0.0049,0.0138,-0.0172,0.0306,-0.0015,0.0069,-0.0072,-0.0111,0.0053,-0.004,0.0042,-0.0012,0.0046,-0.0078,0.0026,-0.0013
 

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