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Found this and thought it was Interesting. J2a L397 is my paternal lineage.. My Y-DNA Haplogroup is J2a1h2a1 [J2-L70 (J2-L397, J2-L398)] Makes a lot of sense. I can trace my paternal ancestry almost 1,000 years to Languedoc France. Pretty sure they were Franks. "Finally, we explored...

Hopefully we can get some ancient DNA out of those burials.

New archaeological finds unearthed from the excavations for the Thessaloniki Metro include a headless statue of Aphrodite and floor mosaics from the 4th century AD. The Aphrodite statue was found on the site of Hagia Sophia station, near a fountain complex discovered only a few weeks ago...

As Greece fights to maintain the name of feta cheese as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDI) product, the Real Greek Feta website provides great evidence that the first mention of the famous cheese is as old as Homer’s “Odyssey”. When Odysseus and his men enter the cave of Cyclops...

What a jerk, I hope they throw the book at him.

Mesolithic Teenager 7000 BC Child Greek girl from 5th century BC Athens. If these are accurate depictions, than I certainly agree with the reconstruction artist, that hard features disappeared overtime, in favor of smoother ones.

Cycladic Bronze-Age: Unusually Sophisticated Prehistoric Monuments & Technology Found Here's the press release by Cambridge University: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unusually-sophisticated-prehistoric-monuments-and-technology-revealed-in-the-heart-of-the-aegean "While excavating an...

By the latest genetic studies, which haplogroup do you think the early Mycenaen Greeks represent, R1a or R1b? Greek being a centum language suggests R1b but Greek shares some features with R1a Indo-Iranian as well.

Interesting, sounds like a lot can be yielded for archaeologists from this discovery in regards to Roman engineering.

Ok, I'm just creating this thread to find some information about mtDNA Haplogroup H36. I recently had a genetics test with LivingDNA and found this out. My entire family (both maternal and paternal lines) going back several generations, actually comes from the region between Florina, Greece...

Here are the Eupedia pages that have been translated so far. Anybody with the necessary skills is welcome to volunteer to translate more pages. In French Comment retracer ses origines ancestrales avec un test ADN ? Quel test ADN d'ascendance et de généalogie choisir ? Projet ADN généalogique...

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I have long wondered how much of the modern Italian and Greek population descend from slaves imported from other countries. We have no idea at present if their genetic impact was minor (few slaves left descendants), moderate (e.g. 10% or 20% of modern genomes come from foreign slaves) or major...

Five years ago I recommended that Greeks should go bankrupt and start afresh. They could have been out of recession by now, growing their economy outside of Eurozone. I'm surprise this farce is still going on. Let's see how Greeks vote today. I have a feeling they will vote for staying in...

Hello, soon i would like to plan a trip to Europe and i am pretty much interested in history. So, my question is which country should be visited to be considered as a much illustrated in the worlds history, Greece or Italy? Thank you

PIE: *T + T, *"TT" (two dental stops) has an "s" between them "TsT" giving "st" in Greek. If the ancient Greeks encountered a language and a word within that language where a set of coronal stops like "tt" was present and the Greeks interpreted the sound of this set of coronal stops as dental...

Haplgroup J2, Greeks and Phoenicians. "The ancient Greeks and Phoenicians were the main driving forces behind the spread of J2 around the western and southern Mediterranian." Eupedia.com, 2013. http://www.eupedia.com/europe/origins_haplogroups_europe.shtml "Thus the most likely explanation...

Here is the breakdown of J2 subclades by province based on the recent study by Boattini et al.. North Italy In Cuneo, south-west Piedmont, 2 out of 30 samples are J2 (6.5%), both J2a*. In Savona/Genova, central Liguria, 7 out of 50 samples are J2 (14%), among which three J2a*, two J2a2-M67...

Here is the breakdown of E1b1b subclades by province based on the recent study by Boattini et al.. North Italy In Cuneo, south-west Piedmont, 2 out of 30 samples are E1b1b (6.5%), among which one E-V13 (3.5%) and one E-V65 (3.5%). In Savona/Genova, central Liguria, 8 out of 50 samples are...

I have counted the samples for each R1b subclade in the new study of Italian Y-chromosomes by Boattini et al. and calculated the percentages for R1b for each province. The two most interesting R1b subclades in Italy are R1b-U152, which I believe to be associated with the Italic migrations, and...