Today's Greeks Are Like Those of 2,000 BC, DNA Study Shows [View all]

By
Bella Kontogianni
March 14, 2024



A gold Mycenaean death mask. Credit: Sharon Mollerus / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0
A recent anthropological DNA investigation indicated that modern Greeks are genetically very close to those who lived more than 4,000 years ago.

The findings of the project, which sequenced the genes of ancient populations, were published in the scientific journal “Cell” recently.

Findings from the Early Bronze Age
The anthropological DNA research uncovered genetic information from the Early Bronze Age, which was approximately 5,000 years ago.

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The data seems to show that people who migrated from the East made up only a small percentage of the Aegean’s Early Bronze Age populations. Minoans from Crete, mainland Greeks, and Cycladic Greeks all shared very similar DNA during the Early Bronze Age.

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