r/MapPorn • u/heatmapper25 • 1d ago

Pyramid-era Egyptian - DNA Distance Heatmap

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Closest living people: Copts and Yemenis. Scandinavians (0.27) and Indians (0.36) before Subsaharan Africans (Dinka 0.64, Yoruba 0.68).

Egyptian Arabs from Cairo: 0.090. Behind Bedouins from Jordan, Tunisia, and Libya. Coptic Christians (0.056) are the last genetic link to pharaonic Egypt.

Genetic similarity does not necessarily mean direct ancestry.

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u/minecraftzizou 13h ago

and the development of writing in similar times

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u/Traditional_Vast_864 7h ago

Not really, the only ones to independently develop writing were the meso-Americans, Mesopotamians and Chinese,

the romans, Greeks and Egyptians for example got writing from sumer, this is also a reason why most of subsaharan Africa didn't have writing, they weren't in a geographical place close to the origin of writing place so they didn't develop it, just like the rest, but the medetranian was close to the fertile Cresent and borrowed it faster.

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u/minecraftzizou 6h ago

there is also the Indus valley, but my point wasn't about developing the concept of writing systems from scratch but rather a writing system in those areas that allowed them to immortalize information.

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u/Traditional_Vast_864 6h ago

That is a true point.