Ancient Greek coins from the island of Lesbos c. 500 B.C. & a bust of a youth in Hellenistic Greece

Ancient Greek coins from the island of Lesbos c. 500 B.C. & a bust of a youth in Hellenistic Greece…

Located in the National Museum in Athens…

Hellenistic Greece is the historical period of the country following Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation of the classical Greek Achaean League heartlands by the Roman Republic…

“Greeks are found to have a substantial relatedness to sub-Saharan (Ethiopian) people” (E1b1b) 

“Genetic distances are closer between Greeks and Ethiopian / Sub-Saharan groups than to any other Mediterranean group and finally Greeks cluster with Ethiopians/sub-Saharans in both neighbour joining dendrograms and correspondence analyses. The time period when these relationships might have occurred was ancient but uncertain and might be related to the displacement of Egyptian-Ethiopian people living in pharaonic Egypt”