Takabuti was an ancient Egyptian married woman who reached an age of between twenty and thirty years.

Edward Hincks, a leading Egyptologist from Ireland, was present and deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs which revealed that she was a noblewoman and the mistress of a great house.

At that time, the unwrapping of a mummy was of considerable scientific interest (as well as curiosity) and later studies revealed beetles later identified as Necrobia mumiarum Hope, 1834, Dermestes maculatus DeGeer, 1774 (as D. vulpinus) and Dermestes frischi Kugelann, 1792 (as D. pollinctus Hope, 1834).

[1] The oldest reported H4a1 samples are from Cardial Neolithic contexts in Spain and Portugal, dating from c. 5300 BC.

[12] According to Fregel et al. (2019, 2020), the presence of H4a1 in ancient samples from the Canary Islands corresponds with "Eurasian prehistoric intrusions in North Africa",[13] whilst the frequency of H4a1 in Bronze Age Europe further supports the idea of migrations in North Africa after the Neolithic period.