The biggest was contamination: Every living organism has DNA, and early research struggled to separate ancient genetic material from modern DNA ... better known as the Black Plague.

Since the 19th century, a strain in Black American ... The beauty of modern American Blackness is not a function of sphinxes, Nefertiti and hanging out with ancient Greeks. When creating and ...

Tommasino takes pains to distinguish between a Black “appropriation” of Egyptian aesthetics and a direct linkage of ancient and modern populations. He also seeks to insulate modern Black ...