# Genomes of Iron Age Etruscans show steppe-related ancestry like their Latin neighbours and no recent Anatolian…

> Genomes of Iron Age Etruscans show steppe-related ancestry like their Latin neighbours and no recent Anatolian admixture.

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# Genomes of Iron Age Etruscans show steppe-related ancestry like their Latin neighbours and no recent Anatolian…

Genomes of Iron Age Etruscans show steppe-related ancestry like their Latin neighbours and no recent Anatolian admixture.

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## What it means

Key question[Where did the Etruscan language come from: Anatolia, the Aegean or Italy itself?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYM533WF5/where-did-the-etruscan-language-come-from-anatolia-the)

3 answers, none ahead yet

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Answer this evidence bears on[The Etruscans and their language came from western Anatolia or the north-east Aegean, as Herodotus's Lydian story…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/answers/ANS0DEEBA222F8E/the-etruscans-and-their-language-came-from-western-anatolia)

Counts against1 for, 2 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 1

[The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDNJ8749HZ/the-origin-and-legacy-of-the-etruscans-through-a-2000-year)

Posth et al. 2021

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