An international team of scientists has sequenced the whole genome from an adult male Egyptian who lived between over 4,500 years ago -- a few centuries after Egyptian unification, bridging the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods.

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — the oldest DNA sample from Egypt to date. The body belongs to an adult male who died more than 4,500 years ago during Egypt’s Old Kingdom.

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 ...