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		boomboomsubban on April 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Egypt holds grand procession of ancient mummies in... I imagine there's like a 99% chance the poster is related to every mummy shown, both because it's been millennia and Egyptian nobility surely married throughout what became Persia.

oytis on April 5, 2021 [–]

Egyptian nobility was largely inbred (and modern Egypt population is Arab, not Persian anyway).

boomboomsubban on April 7, 2021 | [–]

Egyptian nobility went on for millennia, "largely inbred" would still involve thousands of outside marriages.

I was referring to the Persian Empires, which included large parts of the Arabian Peninsula.

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