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Genome of ancient Egyptian entombed 5,000 years ago sequenced for the first time

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Almost five millennia ago, the remains of an ancient Egyptian man were placed in a ceramic pot and entombed in a hillside.

While his identity is still a mystery, scientists have extracted and sequenced his genetic data.

The genome, described in a study published in Nature, is the oldest DNA…



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