Some of Europe’s earliest traces of civilization are found in modern Greece along the Aegean sea. During the Bronze Age, two prominent archaeological cultures emerged in the Aegean. The culture of the island of Crete, sometimes referred to as ‘Minoan’, was Europe’s first literate civilization, and has been described as ‘Europe’s first major experience of...
The Milk Revolution: How people from the Armenian Plateau brought milk to Europe
The Armenian Highlands was an important center of early human technological and agricultural inventions. Situated at the crossroads between Europe, Middle East and Asia it served as a geographic conduit for the spread of technology and genetics into Europe during the Neolithic revolution when humans first abandoned hunting and gathering and started to settle down....
A New Study Reveals 8000 Years of Genetic Continuity in Armenia
That the Armenians are an indigenous people of the Armenian Highlands has already been well established by prominent studies in the field of genetics. Haber et. al. (2015) for example could not find any traces of admixture among Armenians for at least 4000 years, concluding that: “Our tests suggest that Armenians had no significant mixture...
Ancient Egyptians were closer to Armenians than to Africans; a new genetics study reveals
A recent study sheds light on the age old question “who were the ancient Egyptians?” A team of international scientists from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany analyzed the DNA of 93 Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE. The...
DNA from a 7 thousand year old tooth found in a Cave in Artsakh perfectly matches with modern Armenians
Scholars from Britain, US, Denmark and Armenia led by Prof. Levon Yepiskoposyan have been examining prehistoric caves near the village of Azokh in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and found unique artifacts from different periods, among them a tooth from a human who lived 7000 years ago. Due to the cave’s climate DNA was preserved inside the...
SUPPORT the Paleontological Cave Exploration in Artsakh!
A very exciting new paleontological exploration of a prehistoric Cave in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) is in need of our support. Sc.D., Prof. Levon Yepiskoposyan, head of Ethnogenomics laboratory Institute of Molecular Biology of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, along with a small team of dedicated scholars have started an INDIEGOGOG campaign to raise...
The Ethnic Origins of Beauty – Ethnographic Project
This is a very interesting project that was initiated a few years ago by Natalia Ivanova a Russian photographer and photojournalist with the aim to show the scale of ethnic diversity in a visually appealing and a creative manner. I personally love such projects and the original idea behind it. This ambitious project aims to cover all ethnic groups...
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Town Submerged in Lake Sevan
Archaeologists found the ruins of an ancient settlement at the bottom of Lake Sevan in Armenia. Experts believe that the city was hidden under water for thousands of years. The discovery was recently aired on Khazakh.tv. According to researchers the underwater city contains: “stone carved art, some kind of writing, burial places and even large ‘concrete-like’ slabs that...
Why Armenians are a “Living Fossil” to Geneticists?!
A number of genetic studies have recently investigated Armenian DNA from different perspectives revealing some fascinating and consistent results. For example in 2014 Hellenthal et. al. in a paper published in Science have investigated worldwide human admixture history over the past 4000 years and created a Genetic Atlas of human admixture. Oddly enough they could not identify the Armenian...
Armenians Have A High Genetic Affinity To Ancient Europeans – NEW STUDY REVEALS
A new study into Armenian genetics reveals that present day Armenians are a mixture of local Bronze Age people who have retained homogeneity for over three thousand years, and show great affinity to Neolithic Europeans. Armenians are an ethno-linguistic-religious group distinct from their surrounding neighbors. They have their own church, the Armenian Apostolic Church, which was founded...
