4,000 years of contact, conflict and cultural change had little genetic impact in Near East
Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 10:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Near East was a crossroad for the ancient world's greatest civilizations, and invasions over centuries caused enormous changes in cultures, religions and languages. However, a new study of the DNA of ancient skeletons spanning 4,000 years has revealed that most of these changes had no lasting effect on the genetics of the local population of Beirut.