Minoans

Ancient DNA analysis reveals Minoan and Mycenaean origins AN ANALYSIS of ancient DNA has revealed that Ancient Minoans and Mycenaens were genetically similar with both peoples descending from early Neolithic farmers.

They likely migrated from Anatolia to Greece and Crete thousands of years prior…

One of Earth’s earliest civilizations founded not by North Africans or Middle Easterners, as some had theorized, but by people closely related to us. DNA ANALYSIS is unearthing the origins of the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day…