1. Roots of Mediterranean civilisations
Michael Gross 
Current Biology 
Volume 27, Issue 18, Pages R979-R982 (September 2017)
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2. Fragmented culture: Restoration of a late Minoan fresco dated ca
Fragmented culture: Restoration of a late Minoan fresco dated ca. 1525–1450 BCE. Only the offset, irregularly shaped fragments are original. The faces of the women were copied from other, smaller Minoan artworks. (Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dodge Fund, 1927.)
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3. Ancient art: Figurine of an ox and driver, from Phylakopi, a site on the island of Milos related to Mycenaean culture, which dominated mainland Greece and some Aegean islands in the Bronze Age. (Photo: Zde/Wikimedia Commons by CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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4. Sunset Boulevard: The ancient city of Tyre, today in Lebanon, has a history dating back to the Canaanites in the Bronze Age, and the Phoenicians in the times of Ancient Greece. Genome research has shown ancient Canaanites to be closely related to modern Lebanese. (Photo: Arian Zwegers/Flickr by CC BY 2.0.)
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5. Legs locked: Although studies of ancient and modern genomes have revealed multiple migrations in Europe and elsewhere, recent genome sequences from Bronze Age Greece show that these are closely related to modern Greeks, demonstrating genetic continuity spanning five millennia. (Photo: Agnee/Flickr by CC BY 2.0.)
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