 It also ignores the fact that Africa is inhabited by many other populations besides Bantu-related ("Negroid") groups.He asserts that in reconstructions of life in ancient Egypt, "modern Egyptians" would therefore be the most logical and closest approximation to the "ancient Egyptians".A study by published in 2017 described the extraction and analysis of DNA from 151 mummified ancient Egyptian individuals, whose remains were recovered from Abusir el-Meleq in the Cairo Governate.