`    == The Mixed-race society crap ==  Enough with the nonsense, let's get real now Urgothie, you've undermined weeks of progression just to sneak that quote back into the article. Ok, first of all, it seems as if you're indicating that there's a difference in race between the predynastic and dynastic Egyptians as you alluded to in your distinction of of ``Native Egyptians and foreign Egyptians as you emphasized in parenthesis, yet the scientific sources refute all of that, even if ``race were a valid concept``..   Look..   The results indicate overall population continuity over the Predynastic and early Dynastic http://wysinger.homestead.com/zakrzewski_2007.pdf   ^Early dynastic would be considered dynastic Egyptians Urgothie, she confirms that there was continuity at least until then. Please don't make the article contradict its self by going against the primary sources. I have no idea why you or who ever removed the Irish study, but that statement also disregarded that study which showed population continuity from the predynastic all the way to the Greco-Roman period by way of dental affinities, and found affinities with Paleolithic Nubia.  http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/who_were_egyptian.pdf  Dr. Sonia R. Zakrzewski also published a 2003 study in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology titled Variation in Ancient Egyptian Stature and Body Proportions, where she confirms earlier reports that the Ancient Egyptians had ``Negroid`` or tropically adapted body plans.  http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/egyptian_body_proportions.pdf  The nature of the body plan was also investigated by comparing the intermembral, brachial, and crural indices for these samples with values obtained from the literature. No significant differences were found in either index through time for either sex. The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians had the “super-Negroid” body plan described by Robins (1983). The values for the brachial and crural indices show that the distal segments of each limb are longer relative to the proximal segments than in many “African” populations (data from Aiello and Dean, 1990). This pattern is supported by Figure 7 (a plot of population mean femoral and tibial lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates that the Egyptians generally have tropical body plans. Of the Egyptian samples, only the Badarian and Early Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae than predicted from femoral length. Despite these differences, all samples lie relatively clustered together as compared to the other populations.    ^This is the latest Cranial, dental, and body proportion studies that all are in full agreement that predynastic and the early dynastic Egypt for the most part was biologically indigenous. This is what you call ``consensus``, all propaganda aside. Also, since the dynastic race theory is clearly discredited, that so-called Mixed race statement should read like this.   Among researchers for whom race is a valid construct, dynastic Egypt is referred to as an indigenous society of ``Mixed`` African ethnicities  ^^We can't have ``researchers`` contradicting the data and our primary sources.. Another thing about the genetic/demographic studies, you or whoever misinterpreted the report by claiming that it found a ``genetic heritage to East Africa and West Asia``. They were checking DNA in its ``ancestral state``, not classic markers. The main focus was the M1 haplogroup, the reference to the West Eurasian component was due to comparison between Gurna, the rest of Egypt, and Ethiopia. The conclusion was that the Gurna population conserved an ancestral trace of their East African origins characterized by high M1, and since these populations are showed to not have been isolated, the current diversity is due to these new influxes of genes bearing on the ancestral population. It should read like this.  A 2004 study of the mtDNA of 58 native inhabitants from upper Egypt performed to indicate origins found a genetic ancestral heritage to East Africa.      '''The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity of 58 individuals from Upper Egypt, more than half (34 individuals) from Gurna, whose population has an ancient cultural history, were studied by sequencing the control-region and screening diagnostic RFLP markers. This sedentary population presented similarities to the Ethiopian population by the L1 and L2 macrohaplogroup frequency (20.6%), by the West Eurasian component (defined by haplogroups H to K and T to X) and particularly by a high frequency (17.6%) of haplogroup M1. We statistically and phylogenetically analysed and compared the Gurna population with other Egyptian, Near East and sub-Saharan Africa populations; AMOVA and Minimum Spanning Network analysis showe