Ancient-to-Modern Genetic Distances

October 8, 2020

Someone at Anthrogenica made these genetic distance maps that visualize how Modern West Eurasians are related to samples of Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans, with redder coloring indicating more genetic affinity. The Ancients are all closest to Modern Southern Europeans — mostly Italians from all over, but often also Greeks, Iberians, South French and Balkan peoples. (Note: The "Imperial Romans" sample includes some foreigners from the Eastern Mediterranean, who later disappeared).

Minoan Greeks:



Mycenaean Greeks:



Iron Age Romans:



Proto-Villanovan
Villanovan


Etrsucan
Latin


Imperial Romans:



Late Antiquity Romans:



Medieval Romans:



Related: Genetically Italian Iron Age Balkans