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This is a purported list of ancient humans remains, including mummies, that may have been DNA tested. Provided as evidence of the testing are links to the mitochondrial DNA sequences, and/or to the human haplogroups to which each case has been assigned. Also provided is a brief description of when and where they lived.
Who We Are and How We Got Here is a 2018 book on the contribution of genome-wide ancient DNA research to human population genetics by the geneticist David Reich.He describes discoveries made by his group and others, based on analysis and comparison of ancient and modern DNA from human populations around the world.
The book is almost like a "graphic novel", richly documented with more than 200 illustrations—drawings, paintings, sculptures, X-ray photographs of mummies, etc.—, which illustrate the body copy as the pages are pretty equally shared between images and texts.
The mummies were found buried in upside-down boats with hundreds of 13-foot-long wooden poles in the place of tombstones. [56] DNA sequence data [57] shows that the mummies had Haplogroup R1a (Y-DNA) characteristic of western Eurasia in the area of East-Central Europe, Central Asia and the Indus Valley. [58]
The DNA sequence of even older nuclear DNA was reported in 2021 from the permafrost-preserved teeth of two Siberian mammoths, both over a million years old. [6] [75] Researchers in 2016 measured chloroplast DNA in marine sediment cores, and found diatom DNA dating back to 1.4 million years. [76]
A pair of ancient mummies that lay entombed beneath a Hungarian church may soon have their secrets revealed thanks to some decidedly modern technology. Mother and son mummies undergo CT scans to ...
Mummies 317a and 317b were the infant daughters of Tutankhamun, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.Their mother, who has been tentatively identified through DNA testing as the mummy KV21A, is presumed to be Ankhesenamun, his only known wife. 317a was born prematurely at 5–6 months' gestation, and 317b was born at or near full term.
World's oldest cheese found on ancient Chinese mummies. Mithil Aggarwal. September 26, 2024 at 10:01 AM ... A DNA analysis of the cheese samples, she told NBC News in a phone interview Thursday ...