Who Are The Greeks Really? Their Ancient DNA Finally Revealed
Genetics Blueprint
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In 1830, Jakob Fallmerayer claimed the ancient Greeks had been wiped out. Ancient DNA proves he was wrong.
Who are the Greeks really? In this video we decode the genetic history of Greece using ancient DNA from Mycenaeans, Minoans, and over 100 Bronze Age genomes. Modern Greeks are the living continuation of the Bronze Age Aegean, enriched but not replaced by everyone who came after.
You will learn:
Why Minoans and Mycenaeans got at least three quarters of their ancestry from Neolithic farmers of western Anatolia and the Aegean
How Mycenaeans connect to steppe ancestry and the Indo-European story
What the Mygdalia family tree reveals about cousin marriage 4,000 years ago
Why Classical Greek armies at Himera already included mercenaries from Northern Europe, the steppe and the Caucasus
How much Slavic-related ancestry is really in mainland Greece vs the Aegean islands, from the 2017 Peloponnese study to the 2023 Olalde and Reich study
Why Fallmerayer's idea of a total medieval replacement fails against DNA
Based on peer-reviewed studies published in Nature 2017, Science 2022, Cell 2021 and 2023, Nature Ecology and Evolution 2023, and PNAS 2022 from teams led by Lazaridis, Reich, Krause, Stamatoyannopoulos, Clemente, Skourtanioti and Olalde.
If you have Greek roots, where is your family from? The Peloponnese, Crete, the islands, northern Greece, Cyprus, or Asia Minor and the Black Sea coast? Did your DNA results surprise you? Tell me in the comments.
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📖 Chapters
0:00 Greek DNA Continuity Mystery
1:48 Minoan and Mycenaean DNA
4:17 Anatolian Farmers Built Greece
6:32 Steppe Ancestry Brings Greek
8:48 Mycenaean Life Revealed by DNA
12:24 Classical Greece Expands Mediterranean
14:25 Greek Mercenaries Revealed by DNA
16:14 Slavic Migration Into Greece
20:24 Asia Minor Greeks Return
22:45 Modern Greeks Keep Ancient Roots
#GreekDNA #AncientGreece #GeneticsBlueprint
17 Comments
The Minoan side was introduced to the Symiots for exactly that reason.
Also Mani in mainland Greece.
We are children of Nirea who was a son of Poseidon.
We were never conquered and the last battle between Sparta and Athens Symiots did not participate they were simply observers. There are monuments on the Island that date back to thousands of years.
Trojan war before the Greeks to call themselves a Greeks.They are originally from Africa.Trojan war was famous like "Bulgarian civil war"
You welcome.
Who Are The Greeks Really? Their Ancient DNA Finally Revealed
Genetics Blueprint
8,869 views
In 1830, Jakob Fallmerayer claimed the ancient Greeks had been wiped out. Ancient DNA proves he was wrong.
Who are the Greeks really? In this video we decode the genetic history of Greece using ancient DNA from Mycenaeans, Minoans, and over 100 Bronze Age genomes. Modern Greeks are the living continuation of the Bronze Age Aegean, enriched but not replaced by everyone who came after.
You will learn:
Why Minoans and Mycenaeans got at least three quarters of their ancestry from Neolithic farmers of western Anatolia and the Aegean
How Mycenaeans connect to steppe ancestry and the Indo-European story
What the Mygdalia family tree reveals about cousin marriage 4,000 years ago
Why Classical Greek armies at Himera already included mercenaries from Northern Europe, the steppe and the Caucasus
How much Slavic-related ancestry is really in mainland Greece vs the Aegean islands, from the 2017 Peloponnese study to the 2023 Olalde and Reich study
Why Fallmerayer's idea of a total medieval replacement fails against DNA
Based on peer-reviewed studies published in Nature 2017, Science 2022, Cell 2021 and 2023, Nature Ecology and Evolution 2023, and PNAS 2022 from teams led by Lazaridis, Reich, Krause, Stamatoyannopoulos, Clemente, Skourtanioti and Olalde.
If you have Greek roots, where is your family from? The Peloponnese, Crete, the islands, northern Greece, Cyprus, or Asia Minor and the Black Sea coast? Did your DNA results surprise you? Tell me in the comments.
Subscribe to Genetics Blueprint for the DNA history of one country at a time, using real science and real research.
📖 Chapters
0:00 Greek DNA Continuity Mystery
1:48 Minoan and Mycenaean DNA
4:17 Anatolian Farmers Built Greece
6:32 Steppe Ancestry Brings Greek
8:48 Mycenaean Life Revealed by DNA
12:24 Classical Greece Expands Mediterranean
14:25 Greek Mercenaries Revealed by DNA
16:14 Slavic Migration Into Greece
20:24 Asia Minor Greeks Return
22:45 Modern Greeks Keep Ancient Roots
#GreekDNA #AncientGreece #GeneticsBlueprint