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DNA Reveals The Minoans Were Never Who We Thought

DNA Reveals The Minoans Were Never Who We Thought The Minoans built one of the most visually extraordinary civilisations the ancient world ever produced, bull-leaping frescoes, octopuses painted across ceramic with startling accuracy, a palace at Knossos unlike anything else in the Mediterranean, and then essentially vanished leaving behind a writing system nobody has ever deciphered and not a single named king. For over a century everything written about them rested on what archaeologists could dig up and what they chose to make of it, which in the case of Arthur Evans turned out to include quite a lot of creative reconstruction and wishful thinking dressed up as scholarship. Three competing theories about where the Minoans came from generated a century's worth of academic argument without anyone being able to settle it because nobody had the biological evidence. When geneticists finally sequenced Minoan DNA from skeletal remains found in a cave on Crete, the dominant theory didn't just get complicated, it got contradicted entirely. What the DNA pointed toward instead is one of those answers that makes you realise how much of ancient history has been built on assumptions that were never properly tested.