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Notable Matches
Real people from real excavations — with published ancient DNA. Every Ancestrify Global25 report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog (172 entries — 37 historical figures, 120 iconic discoveries, 15 deep time) and shows how close you come to each of them.
What a match means
Each entry is a real sequenced individual — or a tightly-scoped burial group — from the published ancient-DNA record. Your Global25 coordinates are compared to every sequenced member and the distance to the closest one is reported, in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because an entry is one person rather than a population average, distances run larger than population distances — and a small distance means similar ancestry composition, never descent: Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative. Try the lens with example data in the live demo.
Historical figures
People history knows by name — kings, saints, composers, soldiers.
The Griffin Warrior of Pylos
c. 1450 BCE · Pylos, Greece
The Tollense Warriors
c. 1250 BCE · Tollense Valley, Germany
The Hasanlu Lovers
c. 800 BCE · Hasanlu, Iran
The Golden Warrior of Issyk
c. 750 BCE · Eleke Sazy, Kazakhstan
Aak of the Frisian Terps
356–57 BCE · Friesland, Netherlands
The Princess of Hassleben
c. 300 CE · Hassleben, Germany
Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou
543–578 CE · Xianyang, China
Empress Ashina
551–582 CE · Xianyang, China
The Kunbábony Avar Khagan
630–670 CE · Kunbábony, Hungary
The Salme Ship Warriors
c. 750 CE · Salme, Saaremaa, Estonia
Bishop Teodomiro of Iria Flavia
d. 847 CE · Santiago de Compostela, Spain
The Birka Warrior Woman
10th century CE · Birka, Sweden
Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary
1040–1095 CE · Győr, Hungary
Árpád Royals of the Székesfehérvár Basilica
9th–12th century CE · Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Prince Gleb Svyatoslavich
1052–1078 CE · Chernihiv, Ukraine
King Béla III of Hungary
1148–1196 CE · Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Prince Izyaslav Ingvarevich
c. 1180–1223 CE · Ukraine
The Well-man of Sverresborg
d. 1197 CE · Trondheim, Norway
The Piast Dynasty
12th–16th century CE · Płock, Poland
Duke Béla of Macsó
1245–1272 CE · Margaret Island, Hungary
Grand Prince Dmitry Alexandrovich
1250–1294 CE · Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia
Golden Horde Elite of the Jochi Khan Mausoleum
13th–14th century CE · Ulytau, Kazakhstan
The Aba Clan
1276–1450 CE · Abasár, Hungary
Prince Johannes Corvinus
1473–1504 CE · Lepoglava, Croatia
Prince Christophorus Corvinus
1499–1505 CE · Lepoglava, Croatia
The Báthory Family
1550–1600 CE · Pericei, Romania
Bishop Peder Winstrup
1605–1679 CE · Lund, Sweden
Philip Calvert
1626–1682 CE · St. Mary's City, Maryland, USA
The Soldiers of the Reapers' War
1652 CE · La Sagrera, Barcelona, Spain
George Bähr
1666–1738 CE · Dresden, Germany
The Kronan Sailor
1 June 1676 CE · Off Hulterstad, Öland, Sweden
Jean-Paul Marat
1743–1793 CE · Paris, France
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770–1827 CE · Bonn/Vienna
The Fallen of Le Mans
December 1793 CE · Place des Jacobins, Le Mans, France
The Grande Armée of Vilnius
December 1812 CE · Šiaurės miestelis, Vilnius, Lithuania
Gregor Mendel
1822–1884 CE · St Thomas's Abbey, Brno, Czechia
The Cretans of 1941
1941 CE · Adele, Rethymno, Crete, Greece
Iconic discoveries
Mummies, warriors and burials that made world headlines.
The Spirit Cave Mummy
c. 8600 BCE · Spirit Cave, Nevada, USA
The First People of Lagoa Santa
c. 8400 BCE · Lagoa Santa, Brazil
Cheddar Man
c. 8300 BCE · Cheddar Gorge, England
The Doggerland Foragers
c. 8400–7200 BCE · Doggerland, southern North Sea
The Fisher-Foragers of Lepenski Vir
c. 9500–5500 BCE · Iron Gates, Serbia
The Farmers of Çatalhöyük
c. 7100–5900 BCE · Çatalhöyük, Turkey
The First Farmers of Nea Nikomedeia
c. 6300–6000 BCE · Nea Nikomedeia, Macedonia, Greece
Loschbour Man
c. 6100 BCE · Müllerthal, Luxembourg
The Shum Laka Children
c. 6000 BCE and 1000 BCE · Grassfields, Cameroon
The Hòabìnhian of Pha Faen
c. 6000 BCE · Pha Faen, Laos
The First Farmers of Starčevo
c. 6200–5500 BCE · Starčevo, Serbia
The First Farmers of the Linearbandkeramik
c. 5500–4900 BCE · Asparn an der Zaya, Lower Austria
The Takarkori Mummies
c. 5000 BCE · Acacus Mountains, Libya
The Vinča Culture
c. 5300–4500 BCE · Vinča-Belo Brdo, Serbia
The Ertebølle Fisher-Foragers
c. 5400–4300 BCE · Ertebølle and the Limfjord, Denmark
The Varna Gold Elite
c. 4600 BCE · Varna, Bulgaria
The Neolithic Peloponnesians
c. 6000–3200 BCE · Diros and Franchthi caves, Peloponnese, Greece
The Fall of Yunatsite
c. 4500–4400 BCE · Tell Yunatsite, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria
The Copper Lords of Gumelnița
c. 4500–4250 BCE · Pietrele, Romania
The Tren Cave Dwellers
c. 4250–4150 BCE · Tren Cave, Lake Prespa, Albania
The Cucuteni–Trypillia Mega-Settlements
c. 4300–3500 BCE · Verteba Cave, Ukraine
The Long Barrow Builders
c. 3700–3400 BCE · Dorset and the Cotswolds, England
Ötzi the Iceman
c. 3350–3120 BCE · Ötztal Alps, Italy
The Newgrange Chieftain
c. 3200 BCE · Newgrange, Ireland
The Megalith Farmers of Falbygden
c. 3300–2800 BCE · Gökhem, Falbygden, Sweden
The Collective Tomb of Bury
c. 3200–2500 BCE · Bury, Oise, France
The Seal Hunters of Gotland
c. 3000–2700 BCE · Ajvide and Västerbjers, Gotland, Sweden
The Family of Koszyce
c. 2950–2700 BCE · Koszyce, Lesser Poland, Poland
The Old Kingdom Egyptian of Nuwayrat
c. 2855–2570 BCE · Nuwayrat, Egypt
The Vučedol Culture
c. 3000–2200 BCE · Vučedol, Vukovar, Croatia
Mota of the Ethiopian Highlands
c. 2500 BCE · Gamo Highlands, Ethiopia
The Bell Beaker People
c. 2500–2000 BCE · Bohemia and Bavaria
Theopetra Cave
c. 2250 BCE · Theopetra, Thessaly, Greece
Inuk of Greenland
c. 2000 BCE · Qeqertasussuk, Greenland
The Tarim Basin Mummies
c. 2100–1700 BCE · Lop Nur, Xinjiang
The Minoans
c. 2900–1200 BCE · Crete, Greece
The Mokrin Necropolis
c. 2100–1800 BCE · Mokrin, Serbia
The Cetina Culture
c. 2200–1600 BCE · Cetina Valley, Dalmatia, Croatia
The Kingdom of El Argar
c. 2200–1550 BCE · La Almoloya, Murcia, Spain
The Únětice Culture
c. 2200–1600 BCE · Bohemia, Lower Austria and central Germany
The Old Babylonians
c. 1900–1600 BCE · Bakr Awa, Iraq
The Funadomari Jōmon Woman
c. 1800–1500 BCE · Rebun Island, Japan
The Mycenaeans of Mygdalia
c. 1600–1450 BCE · Mygdalia Hill, Achaea, Greece
The Trzciniec Culture
c. 1650–1250 BCE · Żerniki Górne, Poland
The Tombs of Aidonia
c. 1600–1200 BCE · Aidonia, Nemea, Greece
The Palace of Nestor Burials
c. 1350–1000 BCE · Pylos, Greece
The Proto-Illyrians
c. 2600–300 BCE · Kukës, Albania
The Mycenaeans of Tiryns
c. 1400–1050 BCE · Tiryns, Argolid, Greece
The Nuragic Sardinians
c. 1300–1050 BCE · Perdasdefogu and Seulo, Sardinia, Italy
The Philistines of Ashkelon
c. 1200–600 BCE · Ashkelon, Israel
The Lapita Voyagers of Teouma
c. 950 BCE · Teouma, Vanuatu
The Illyrians of Montenegro
c. 1600–300 BCE · Montenegro
The Illyrians of Dalmatia
c. 1200–300 BCE · Dalmatia, Croatia
The Paeonians
c. 1200–300 BCE · North Macedonia
The Picenes of Novilara
c. 725–625 BCE · Novilara, Marche, Italy
The Phoenicians of Tharros
c. 700–470 BCE · Tharros, Sinis Peninsula, Sardinia, Italy
The Phoenicians of Motya
c. 670–450 BCE · Motya and Birgi, Sicily, Italy
The Salt Lords of Hallstatt
c. 750–400 BCE · Hallstatt and the Dürrnberg, Austria
The Etruscans
c. 800–100 BCE · Tuscany, Italy
The Vix Burial Complex
c. 650–200 BCE · Vix, Burgundy, France
The Daunians
c. 630–340 BCE · Ordona (Herdonia), Apulia, Italy
The Soldiers of Himera
480 BCE · Himera, Sicily
The Thracians
c. 800–100 BCE · Thrace, Bulgaria
The Gauls of the Aisne
c. 500–400 BCE · Bucy-le-Long, Aisne valley, France
The Carthaginians
c. 600–146 BCE · Carthage, Tunisia
The Pazyryk Horse-Lords
c. 500–300 BCE · Berel, Altai Mountains, Kazakhstan
The Greeks of Ambracia
c. 550–150 BCE · Arta (Ambracia), Epirus, Greece
The Vergina Royal Tombs
c. 400–350 BCE · Vergina (Aegae), Greece
The Bog People of Denmark
c. 800 BCE–100 CE · Jutland and the Danish isles, Denmark
The La Tène Celts of Bohemia
c. 430–230 BCE · Radovesice, Bohemia, Czechia
The Qin Ancestors
c. 400–200 BCE · Shaanxi, China
The Lost City of Tenea
c. 525 BCE–200 CE · Chiliomodi, Corinthia, Greece
The Celts of the Cornaux Bridge
c. 260–80 BCE · Cornaux, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
The Chariot Riders of East Yorkshire
c. 230–110 BCE · Pocklington, East Yorkshire, England
The Balkan Celts
c. 300–50 BCE · Pannonian Croatia
The Xiongnu Imperial Elite
c. 100 BCE–100 CE · Mongolian steppe
The Durotriges of Dorset
c. 100 BCE–50 CE · Winterborne Kingston, Dorset, England
The Bog Army of Alken Enge
c. 100 BCE–150 CE · Lake Mossø, Jutland, Denmark
The Victims of Pompeii
79 CE · Pompeii, Italy
The Romans of Viminacium
1st–6th century CE · Kostolac, Serbia
The People of Imperial Rome
c. 100–300 CE · Rome and Portus, Italy
The Romans of Doclea
c. 100–400 CE · Doclea, Montenegro
The Sarmatians of the Lower Danube
c. 100–400 CE · Wallachia and Moldavia, Romania
The Goths of the Vistula
c. 100–400 CE · Masłomęcz, Hrubieszów, Poland
The Greeks of Histria
2nd–6th century CE · Histria, Dobruja, Romania
The Romans of Naissus
c. 250–500 CE · Naissus (Niš), Serbia
The Silla Nobles of Gyeongsan
c. 300–500 CE · Gyeongsan, South Korea
The European Hun Elites
5th century CE · Carpathian Basin, Hungary
The Gepid Kingdom
c. 450–560 CE · Danube–Tisza lands, Serbia
The Picts
c. 420–630 CE · Lundin Links, Fife, Scotland
The Early Bavarians
c. 500–600 CE · Essenbach-Altheim, Bavaria, Germany
The Anglo-Saxons
c. 450–750 CE · Kent and East Anglia, England
The Lovelock Cave People
c. 150–1400 CE · Lovelock Cave, Nevada, USA
The Visigoths of Iberia
c. 480–770 CE · Granada and Madrid, Spain
The Merovingians of Koksijde
c. 620–750 CE · Koksijde, Flanders, Belgium
The Langobards of Collegno
c. 640–750 CE · Collegno, Piedmont, Italy
The Early Slavs
c. 600–900 CE · Danube Balkans, Serbia and Croatia
The Medieval Venosans
8th century CE · Venosa, Basilicata, Italy
The Avars of the Vienna Basin
8th century CE · Mödling and Leobersdorf, Austria
The Kulubnarti Nubians
c. 650–1000 CE · Kulubnarti, Sudan
The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund
c. 800 CE and 1800 CE · Roopkund Lake, India
The Maya of Chichén Itzá
c. 600–1100 CE · Chichén Itzá, Mexico
The Komani-Kruja Culture
c. 800–950 CE · Koman, northern Albania
The Taíno Woman of Preacher's Cave
c. 950 CE · Eleuthera, Bahamas
The Vikings
c. 750–1050 CE · Scandinavia and the Viking world
The Settlers of Iceland
c. 870–1100 CE · Iceland
The Hungarian Conquerors
10th century CE · Karos and the Upper Tisza, Hungary
The Christians of Sigtuna
c. 900–1050 CE · Sigtuna, Sweden
The Medieval Docleans
c. 800–1100 CE · Doclea, Montenegro
The Gaels of Kilteasheen
c. 700–1300 CE · Kilteasheen, Lough Key, Ireland
The Muslims of Segesta
c. 870–1170 CE · Segesta, Sicily, Italy
The Norse of Greenland
c. 950–1400 CE · Brattahlid and the Norse settlements, Greenland
The Christians of Norman Segesta
c. 1120–1320 CE · Segesta, Sicily, Italy
The Medieval Bosnians
13th–15th century CE · Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Jews of Medieval Erfurt
c. 1270–1400 CE · Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany
The Jews of Tàrrega
1348 CE · Tàrrega, Catalonia, Spain
The Black Death Londoners
c. 1330–1360 CE · East Smithfield, London, England
The Retainers of Machu Picchu
c. 1420–1530 CE · Machu Picchu, Peru
The Albanians of Arbëria
c. 1400–1700 CE · Barç and Bardhoc, Albania
The Roma of Barç
c. 1500–1700 CE · Barç, Korçë, Albania
Deep time
Ice Age individuals from tens of thousands of years ago.
The Zlatý Kůň Woman
c. 43,000 BCE · Koněprusy, Czechia
Ust'-Ishim Man
c. 43,000 BCE · Ust'-Ishim, Siberia, Russia
The Bacho Kiro Pioneers
c. 43,000 BCE · Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria
The Ranis Pioneers
c. 45,000–41,000 BCE · Ilsenhöhle, Ranis, Germany
Tianyuan Man
c. 38,000 BCE · Tianyuan Cave, China
Oase 1
c. 38,000 BCE · Peștera cu Oase, Romania
Kostenki Man
c. 36,000 BCE · Kostenki, Russia
The Peștera Muierii Woman
c. 33,000 BCE · Peștera Muierii, Baia de Fier, Romania
Goyet Q116-1
c. 33,000 BCE · Goyet Caves, Namur, Belgium
The Salkhit Woman
c. 32,000 BCE · Salkhit Valley, Mongolia
The Sunghir Burial
c. 32,000 BCE · Sunghir, Russia
The Dolní Věstonice Triple Burial
c. 29,000 BCE · Dolní Věstonice, Czechia
Mal'ta Boy
c. 22,500 BCE · Mal'ta, Siberia, Russia
The Taforalt Iberomaurusians
c. 13,000 BCE · Taforalt, Morocco
La Braña Man
c. 5900 BCE · La Braña, Spain
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