A map of Egypt shows the Abusir-el Meleq archaeological site (marked with an orange X), from where the mummy DNA came. The more modern genetic samples were taken from places marked with orange ...

Map of Egypt, showing the archaeological site of Abusir-el Meleq (orange X), and the location of the modern Egyptian samples used in the study (orange circles ...

The trio came from Abusir el-Meleq, an ancient city on a floodplain ... the differences between the three men by using heat maps so they could refine the details of each individual.

The sarcophagus of Tadja, one of the mummies from Abusir el Meleq that had its DNA analyzed in a new study. Aegyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Historically, the idea of extracting DNA from an ...

The sarcophagus of Tadja, from the ancient Egyptian site of Abusir el-Meleq, contained one of the mummies whose DNA was analyzed. The sarcophagus of Tadja, from the ancient Egyptian site of Abusir ...

According to a new DNA-based predictive system, the three mummies from Abusir el-Meleq were around age 25, had light brown skin and dark eyes and hair. The lid of the mummy’s coffin sports ...