Iranian DNA: ancient origins from the Zagros farmers to the plateau's long continuity
Iran holds one of ancient DNA's founding populations. What the Zagros genomes changed, how the plateau's ancestry formed and persisted through empires, what modern Iranian samples show, and how to read your own results.
- The genomes that named a stream
- Empires, and the quiet underneath
- Reading your own results
- Frequently asked questions
- Are modern Iranians descended from the ancient Persians?
- How much Arab or Mongol ancestry do Iranians have?
- Why do calculators give Iranians big "Caucasus" percentages?
- Sources and further reading
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