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@Papyrus_Stories @CCChiara @NatGalleriesSco Great question, J-Crom!

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Making a correlation between a modern dog breed and an ancient Egyptian representation of a dog isn't straightforward.

#dogs #dogsofegypt #doggos #floofs #humandogrelations
@Papyrus_Stories @CCChiara @NatGalleriesSco 2/5

Scientifically: modern dog breeds (genetics) only emerged in the last few hundred years from Europe (cf. Parker et al., 2004; vonHoldt et al., 2010)

#dogs #dogsofegypt #doggos #floofs #humandogrelations
@Papyrus_Stories @CCChiara @NatGalleriesSco 3/5

Visually: even today, identifying dog breed (genetics) based on visual identification is *highly contested* (cf. Voith et al., 2009, 2013; Olson, 2015)

#dogs #dogsofegypt #doggos #floofs #humandogrelations
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