Elite Greek warrior myth debunked: Targeted next-generation sequencing has revealed that the much vaunted Greek warriors’ superiority had more than a helping hand from foreign fighters
Targeted next-generation sequencing has revealed that the much vaunted Greek warriors’ superiority had more than a helping hand from foreign fighters. Historians have traditionally downplayed the role of foreign mercenaries in the Greek armies of the Classical period.
Analysis of elemental isotope ratios in the teeth of the ancient individuals, which function as a geographical signature of the individual’s native land, showed that these soldiers in the Greek army in the fifth centuryhad ancestral origins from as far away as northern Europe, the Eurasian steppe and the Caucasus.
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