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Boudicca2 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yeah, the ancient Egyptians married first degree relatives. The Euro nobility it was cousins at the worst. The problem wasn't brother/sister father/child incest with them. The problem was the same families kept marrying people from the same families generation after generation so some disease risk was greatly increased.