Event · Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated

Posth and colleagues publish 82 ancient genomes from Etruria and find no recent Anatolian ancestry

On 24 September 2021 Science Advances publishes a genomic transect from 800 BC to AD 1000 showing Iron Age Etruscans with steppe-related ancestry like their Latin neighbours and no Anatolian admixture, followed by a shift to eastern Mediterranean ancestry in the Roman imperial period.

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Cosimo Posth

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Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated

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The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Posth and colleagues publish 82 ancient genomes from Etruria and find no recent Anatolian ancestry [Event EVT0DEDVF1WNHVN]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVT0DEDVF1WNHVN

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  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Event, catalog key EVT0DEDVF1WNHVN},
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