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Budge started purchasing predynastic finds from the locals including bowls, spear and arrowheads, carved flint and bone figures and partial human remains (described as chiefly bones without skin or flesh remaining). [4] In 1896, Budge was approached by a resident of Gebelein who claimed to have found more mummies.
One of the mummies was found to belong to the Y-chromosomal haplogroup R1b1a1b (R1b-M269), [37] which originated in Eastern Europe, and another to the Y-chromosome haplogroup E1b1b1a1b2a4b5a, [37] which originated in North Africa. [38] [5] [39] They also belonged to mtDNA haplogroups L3h1 and N5, common in Africans and Middle Easterners ...
The Gebelein predynastic mummies are six naturally mummified bodies, dating to approximately 3400 BC from the Late Predynastic period of Egypt, and were the first complete pre-dynastic bodies to be discovered.
Prehistoric Egypt and Predynastic Egypt was the period of time starting at the first human settlement and ending at the First Dynasty of Egypt around 3100 BC.. At the end of prehistory, "Predynastic Egypt" is traditionally defined as the period from the final part of the Neolithic period beginning c. 6210 BC to the end of the Naqada III period c. 3000 BC.
These mummies were the first complete predynastic bodies to be discovered. [47] [48] Kampp 150 mummy 18th: Unknown 2017 — The remains of a mummy were discovered in tomb "Kampp 150" sometime in December, 2017. The identification of the mummy remains unknown. [49] Mer-Neith-it-es Unknown Female 2018 —
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. [according to whom?
Predynastic and Early Dynastic period (c. 6000 BC – c. 2690 BC) Mummy of Ginger from Gebelein (c. 3400 BC) Flint knife with an ivory handle (known as the Pit-Rivers Knife), Sheikh Hamada, Egypt (c. 3100 BC) The Battlefield Palette and Hunters Palette, two cosmetic palettes with complex decorative schemes (c. 3100 BC)
The following is a list of mummies that include Egyptian pharaohs and their named mummified family members. [a] Some of these mummies have been found to be remarkably intact, while others have been damaged from tomb robbers and environmental conditions (with some only having small fragments representing the mummy as a result).