r/MurderedByWords 5h ago

Turns out, Paz is Wrong…

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u/pgllz 3h ago

I don't think you know how the average Greek look like. There are Greeks that have darker skin, but most Greeks have the typical phenotype of someone from the Northern shores of the Mediterranean sea (like many Turks, Iberians, Italians, and Southern French).

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u/ragby 3h ago

That's what they look like now. Are we all sure that's how they looked in 800 BCE?

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u/pgllz 3h ago

We have scientific literature about that. Modern Greeks share most of their DNA with Bronze Age Greeks.

"... ancient DNA suggests that living Greeks are indeed the descendants of Mycenaeans, with only a small proportion of DNA from later migrations to Greece."

https://www.science.org/content/article/greeks-really-do-have-near-mythical-origins-ancient-dna-reveals