The Medieval Arabs were always a minority among the peoples they conquered: Levanites, Berbers, Egyptians, Persians. Genetically, less than 10% of Modern Egyptians have ancestry that originates in the Arabian peninsula.
Even today, you can clearly distinguish Levanites (Palestinians and Lebanese) and Berbers from Saudis and Yemenis.
I heard that that the descend of egyptians are the coptos, original lebanese were phoenicians
et tenebras invadere cor meum vindicare meas
Cuanto mas creo saber mas me doy cuenta de lo poco que se, que razon tenia Socrates
El oceano del Atlas en el occidente y el Gran verde en el oriente, el que ha engendrado grandes culturas, descendientes de Celti e Iber, hijos de Hercules, aqui surgimos y aqui seguimos, ese es nuestro legado, es nuestro eje y eso es lo que somos , celtiberos
This said, you're right in one thing. There's some Arab admixture in present Egypt that did not exist in Egypt -logically- before the Arab expansion.
And I'm not talking about people tracing back their ancestry by family trees.
I'm talking about genes, genetics, DNA.
Only 10 out of 100 Egyptians have genetic kinship with the populations of the Arabian Peninsula.
http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptN...nnel=0&sp=trueLONDON Aug 1 (Reuters Life!) - Up to 70 percent of British men and half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland said.
Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh, who ascended the throne at the age of nine, his father Akhenaten and grandfather Amenhotep III, based on a film that was made for the Discovery Channel.
The results showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 percent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor.
Among modern-day Egyptians this haplogroup contingent is below 1 percent, according to iGENEA.
"It was very interesting to discover that he belonged to a genetic group in Europe -- there were many possible groups in Egypt that the DNA could have belonged to," said Roman Scholz, director of the iGENEA Centre.
Around 70 percent of Spanish and 60 percent of French men also belong to the genetic group of the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.
"We think the common ancestor lived in the Caucasus about 9,500 years ago," Scholz told Reuters.
It is estimated that the earliest migration of haplogroup R1b1a2 into Europe began with the spread of agriculture in 7,000 BC, according to iGENEA.
However, the geneticists were not sure how Tutankhamun's paternal lineage came to Egypt from its region of origin.
The centre is now using DNA testing to search for the closest living relatives of "King Tut".
"The offer has only been publicised for three days but we have already seen a lot of interest," Scholz told Reuters.
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