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    Guess my mate's ethnicity

    He's an actor, not a royal wannabe :-) Eyes are brown.
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    FTDNA and 23andme results contradict GEDMATCH calculators - What am I missing?

    Evening folks I have used FTDNA before and recently got my 23andme results too. Up until this point everything makes sense, I seem to be more or less your typical Greek Mediterranean. FTDNA: 97% Mediterranean and the remaining 3% from here and there. A similar picture with 23andme...
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    Ancient Greek textiles closer to Near Eastern, Italian closer to Central European

    Analysis of Iron Age textiles indicates that during c. 1000 - 400 BC Italy shared the textile culture of Central Europe, while Greece was largely influenced by the traditions of ancient Near East In archaeological contexts, textiles are relatively rare finds, especially in Mediterranean Europe...
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    Facial Reconstruction of Mycaenean era (c.1500 BC) nobleman from ancient Greece

    The face of a nobleman (possibly warrior/priest) who lived in Pylos, Greece, near the location of King Nestor's palace and around the same time period, has been reconstructed by scientists from the University of Cincinnati and presented during an event hosted by the American School of Classical...
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    New data from Greek & Anatolian Neolithic.

    A really interesting study carried out by the Univeristy of Mainz (Germany) in collaboration with the University of Thrace (Greece) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/06/01/1523951113/suppl/DCSupplemental We have new data on neolithic individuals from Greece and Anatolia. G2a pops up...
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    New Faculty of Ancient DNA Studies - Greece

    A new faculty of Ancient DNA Studies has been established at the Institite of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the University of Crete. It will be the first in Greece and the 3rd in Europe. Hopefully we can expect new publications from ancient samples from Greece in the near future. News...
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    Ancient DNA from Greece

    A very interesing conference is taking place in Thessaloniki today, where the findings of a DNA analysis carried out on a number of samples from Neolithic/Bronze Age Greece are going to be revealed. So far the only information that has been released, mentions that the tested individuals were...
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