My musings on the New Testament, Early Christianity, Religion, Literature, and Other Phenomena and Ephemera.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
DNA of Minoans
New studies have traced the mitochondrial DNA, which traces maternal lineage, of Minoan remains to determine their racial background, at least partially so. And, of the bones and teeth that they could get a sample, it has a stronger correlation to European DNA than others. See this article by a person with a spectacular last name.