Late Period of ancient Egypt North Africa during Antiquity




the late period of ancient egypt refers last flowering of native egyptian rulers after third intermediate period 26th saite dynasty persian conquests and, ending fall of thirty-first (second persian) dynasty conquest of alexander great in 332 bce. after alexander s death in 323 bce, egypt fell ptolemy soter established ptolemaic kingdom in 305 bce.


in 2013, first genetic analysis utilizing next-generation sequencing conducted ascertain ancestral lineage of ancient egyptian individual. dna extracted heads of 5 egyptian mummies. specimens dated between 806 bc , 124 ad, timeframe corresponding late dynastic , ptolemaic periods. researchers observed 1 of mummified individuals belonged mtdna haplogroup i2, maternal clade believed have originated in western asia.








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