# Cosimo Posth · Person

> Archaeogeneticist, University of Tübingen; led the 2021 Etruscan genome transect. In Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated.

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# Cosimo Posth

Archaeogeneticist, University of Tübingen; led the 2021 Etruscan genome transect

[Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language)[1 event][1 source]

Cosimo Posth is archaeogeneticist at the University of Tübingen and first author of the 2021 study of 82 ancient genomes from Etruria and southern Italy., and appears in the record of Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated as archaeogeneticist, University of Tübingen; led the 2021 Etruscan genome transect.

One event on the site involves Posth: Posth and colleagues publish 82 ancient genomes from Etruria and find no recent Anatolian ancestry (24 Sep 2021).

One question rest in part on what Posth did or said, among them “Where did the Etruscan language come from: Anatolia, the Aegean or Italy itself?”, which stands open: 3 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

**Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated**

Archaeogeneticist, University of Tübingen; led the 2021 Etruscan genome transect · 1 event

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language)

[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)Open: 3 answers, none ahead

## What Cosimo Posth did 1

24 Sep 2021[Posth and colleagues publish 82 ancient genomes from Etruria and find no recent Anatolian ancestry](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/events/EVT0DEDVF1WNHVN/posth-and-colleagues-publish-82-ancient-genomes-from-etruria)

## 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)

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Archaeogeneticist at the University of Tübingen and first author of the 2021 study of 82 ancient genomes from Etruria and southern Italy.

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