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   Archaeology The Greeks really do have near-mythical origins, ancient DNA reveals Analysis connects Greeks to the famed Mycenaeans and Minoans 2 Aug 2017 By Ann Gibbons A Mycenaean woman depicted on a fresco at Mycenae on mainland Greece. © Yann Forget/Wikimedia Commons Share: Facebook Share on X Linked In Reddit Wechat Whatsapp Email Ever since the days of Homer, Greeks have long idealized their Mycenaean "ancestors" in epic poems and classic tragedies that glorify the exploits of Odysseus, King Agamemnon, and other heroes who went in and out of favor with the Greek gods. Although these Mycenaeans were fictitious, scholars have debated whether today's Greeks descend from the actual Mycenaeans, who created a famous civilization that dominated mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea from about 1600 B.C.E. to 1200 B.C.E., or whether the ancient Mycenaeans simply vanished from the region. Now, ancient DNA suggests that living Greeks are indeed the descendants of Mycenaeans, wit...

Archaeology News By  Ben Turner   published  13 hours ago An AI analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which include texts from the Hebrew Bible, could mean they were composed earlier than experts thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.  Here’s how it works . The scrolls were first discovered by a Bedouin shepherd inside the West Bank's caves of Qumran between 1946 and 1947.   (Image credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images) Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls may be older than experts thought, according to an artificial intelligence (AI) analysis. Consisting of about 1,000 ancient manuscripts etched onto animal skin, papyrus and copper, the  Dead Sea Scrolls  contain the earliest known versions of texts from the Hebrew Bible — including copies of the books of Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah, Kings and Deuteronomy — and date from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D. Now, scientists have used an AI program, ...