A new DNA analysis of a 4,400-year-old skeleton from ancient Egypt has found that the individual, an elite official buried during the Old Kingdom, had predominantly Moroccan ancestry, according to a study published this week in Nature.

A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.

A skeleton found in a 4,500-year-old ceramic pot has rewritten the history of Ancient Egypt. A DNA test on the man’s bones has upended how historians could view the rise of Ancient Egyptian civilisation.