The team sampled 151 mummified individuals from the
archaeological site of Abusir
el - Meleq, along the Nile River in Middle Egypt, from two anthropological collections hosted and curated
at the University of Tuebingen and the Felix von Luschan Skull Collection
at the Museum of Prehistory of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz.