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It has always been a bit of a mystery as to the origin of the Egyptians. But based on history and DNA sampling of modern Egyptians most concluded that they came from Northern Africa.
However, this contradicts the Bible that declared that Egyptians descended from Mizraim, one of the son’s of Ham. The term Mizraim is actually translated Egypt by some translations (Genesis 10:6):
6 The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. (Genesis 10:6 NASV)
6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. (Genesis 10:6 ESV)
It was Ham’s eldest Cush and his descendants who went on to settle what today is modern Africa. We see a possible reference to their darker skin in the Prophet Jeremiah’s rhetorical question: “Can the Ethiopian change his skin?” (Jeremiah 13:23). The Hebrew word translated Ethiopian is “kusi,” a Cushite.
But with the modern Egyptian DNA suggesting an African origin, it left the impression that the Bible was wrong.
However, that recently changed when geneticists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI) did DNA testing of ancient Egyptian mummies to determine their origin.
Because of Egypt’s hot weather and ancient Egyptian embalming practices, DNA testing of mummy skin and tissue has proved challenging. However, led by Johannes Kraus, MPI was able to derive 90 DNA samples after testing skull bones of 151 mummies dated from 1388 BCE to 426 CE.
They were stunned by what they found. According to Krause, these ancient Egyptians “have almost zero sub-Saharan African Ancestry.”
Ancient Egyptians were very much different from their modern counterparts.
Based on the DNA, Krause said ancient Egyptians were more closely related to east Asians and Europeans than to modern Egyptians. This would fit the Biblical description on the origins of the ancient Egyptians.
Krause suspects that the modern Egyptians gained their Sub-African DNA sometime after the Romans came to power.
Sources:
- DNA evidence revealing true origins of ancient Egyptians may prove Biblical lineage: Breaking Israel News
- Mummy DNA reveals surprise discovery about ancient Egyptians’ ancestry: International Business Times
- Genome of ancient Egyptian mummy analyzed: CBC
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This genealogy of ancient egyptians is very true. Thats how I know it. But we need to emphasise the fact that Ethiopia is the birthplace of the Afrikan people because we all come from Ham, and Ham’s eldest son was Cush. We are the descendants of Cush
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Do you know where African Americans of sub Saharan african people in West Africa do you know which some they descend from or if the game from East Africa
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Thanks for your comment. I am sorry I dont know
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Interesting that the book of Enoch which is found in the Coptic Church in Ethiopia (the only church that has a Bible that contains the book of Enoch) give us the reference to where the beginning of ALL flesh started. We cannot say African’s only come from Cush, as Abraham’s father Tehra worked for Nimrod (the King) at that time and Tehra had concubines and slaves just as Nimrod (decendant from Ham) had slaves. There definitely were inter-marriage between Noah’s son’s the three brother’s (Shem Ham and Japheth) decendants as Abraham’s wife Sarah was his half-sister. That is what they did, nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters (whether full or half married)
Were all decendant from Ethiopia no matter what our colour is, Adam and Eve are our forefather and mother … were all family.
We must also not forget that our DNA is changed by our lifestyle (our food, environment, geographic area etc.) That does not mean were not related.
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1388 BC to 426 BC is NOT ancient in Egyptian historic terms. The only real conclusion that can be drawn from this research is that the ruling class from the New Kingdom onward came originally from the north, but it does not tell us anything about the founders of the ancient Egyptian culture which started even before the unification of the two land by Nemes a king from the south around 3000 BC.
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