For the first time, scientists have recently obtained genetic material and analyzed genome sequences from the ancient Minoans and Mycenaeans, who lived three to five thousand years ago.

The new analysis suggests that the Minoans and Mycenaeans shared a great deal of their genetic heritage.

Dr Iosif Lazaridis from Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts and colleagues focused on burials from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island of Crete from 2,600 to 1,100 BC, and the Mycenaean culture, which existed across Greece from 1,600 to 1,100 BC.

Dr Lazaridis explained that most of the people who created these civilizations appear to be local, deriving between 62 percent and 86 percent of their ancestry from people who introduced agriculture to Europe from Anatolia (modern Turkey) in Neolithic times beginning about seven thousand years ago.

[greekreporter.com]

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