{"id":1930,"date":"2017-06-17T18:18:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2017-06-22T09:31:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T04:01:23","slug":"straight-out-of-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/straight-out-of-the-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight out of the grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Secrets of ancient Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Context<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 90 Mummies dug from the Abusir el-Malek archaeological site, located about 115 km south of Cairo, and is catching the eyes of many.<\/li>\n<li>The DNA was extracted from the teeth and bones of mummies from a burial ground associated with the god Osiris.<\/li>\n<li>The oldest were from about 1,388 BC during the New Kingdom, while the most recent were from about 426 AD, centuries after Egypt had become a Roman Empire province.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Findings<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Investigation reveals the fact that the ancient Egyptians had a minimal genetic kinship with sub-Saharan populations. On the contrary ancient Ethiopia was known to have had significant interactions with Egypt.<\/li>\n<li>The genes identify to have a close resemblance with the people of ancient Near East, Iraq and Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.<\/li>\n<li>As far as the study is concerned, the bodies of the dead (mummies) are from among the middle strata of the society.<\/li>\n<li>The discovery raises questions about the descendants, genetic continuity and foreign exchange of genetic make-up of ancient Egyptians.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secrets of ancient Egypt Context The 90 Mummies dug from the Abusir el-Malek archaeological site, located about 115 km south of Cairo, and is catching the eyes of many. The DNA was extracted from the teeth and bones of mummies from a burial ground associated with the god Osiris. The oldest were from about 1,388&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/straight-out-of-the-grave\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Straight out of the grave<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":2193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mummy.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704952308},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}