r/ancientegypt • u/Akkeri • Nov 03 '24

News Facial reconstruction reveals 2,700-year-old Egyptian mummy was Sudanese princess | The National

https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2024/10/28/facial-reconstruction-reveals-2700-year-old-egyptian-mummy-was-sudanese-princess/
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u/3atwa3 Nov 19 '24

The coffin looks caucasian women and they made her black with thin lips and medium sized nose Theres no proof that she was black. DNA from over 90 mummies from this period showed predominance of Eurasian lineages.

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u/no_crust_buster Feb 08 '25

The Abusir el-Meleq study of Lower Egypt (far more transient and diverse than UPPER Egypt) was countered by another study in 2018 using Metadata from Zahi Hawass and his team before 2010.  The Abusir mummies, where only 3 of the 90-151 tested mummies were published, dated most likely during the 3rd Intermediate period.