Pompeii (where the skin of the people is WHITE)
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Italians Spaniards and Greeks spent a good chunk of antiquity fighting and being conquered by North African Muslims. So there’s two different lines, the reality that they modern Greeks don’t have much genetically in common with ancient Greeks, and the lie that Greeks were always Arab mixed. The latter lie is what allows the “we wuz Greeks/italians/spainards” because we can’t possibly admit Arabic muslims were massive sex slavers and attempted to genocide entire peoples since their inception.
Muslims didn't exist in antiquity, fren. Their false prophet Muhammad wasn't born until 570AD and Arabs didn't leave the Arabian peninsula en masse until after he died. The folk the Romans were fighting in North Africa were mostly Phoenicians and Goths.
Crap I meant immediately post antiquity/ early Middle Ages. Moors/spain were 700s, Egypt and Greece were 600. The genetic shift is still the same. Redheads are common in Greek mythology, same as blue eyes.
That's not quite right. Modern Greeks have strong genetic continuity from their ancient ancestors going all the way back to the Mycenaean period, but they do have some foreign admixture from MENA peoples
Meh the first study admits it’s only a 62-80% adherence and “ This is due to the fact that Neolithic farmers share fewer alleles with Modern Greeks than with Mycenaeans” the graph shows Crete is more genetically related to ancient greeks, nor does it account for the post Bronze Age invasion.
Hardly " meh" when you made this argument that, and I quote
when we can demonstrate that in fact modern Greeks do have quite a bit with in common with ancient Greeks. Not my fault you made too strong of a statement and are being corrected on it.
I'm not sure what your argument is here. The Greek civilization that succeeded the Mycenaeans are largely their genetic descendants. What post Bronze Age invasion are you referring to?
The Sea Peoples.
The Islamic incursion on Greece lol