In Genesis, the first book of Moses, the sons of Jacob did not recognise Joseph as their brother when they stood before him as vizier of Egypt.

The writer, Moses, obviously knew what the Israelites and Egyptians looked like, as did the contemporaries of Moses, so the Israelites, must have been similar in appearance to the Egyptians.

The statue of the seated scribe in the Louvre is, I think, a good starting point for those wanting to envisage what the ancient Egyptians looked like.

Abraham, from Ur of the Chaldeans, was the grandfather of Jacob through Isaac.

Jacob had eleven sons in addition to Joseph who became the eleven tribes of Israel, and he took the sons of Joseph as his own sons and they became the heads of two half tribes.

The ten northern tribes were lost after the Kingdom of Israel was divided between 'Israel' and 'Judah' with the King of Judah ruling over the tribes of Judah and Benjamin from Jerusalem.

The Israelites were from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem and exile to Babylon,.

I am not surprised by the DNA findings.

Mark