Armenians depicted in Persepolis. Gene analysis has disproven theories of their Balkan origin held since antiquity. Source: Phillip Maiwald (Nikopol) / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Armenian Genome Mapping Proves Herodotus was Wrong, Again

A new study has analyzed a large whole genome dataset of the Armenian population. The study, published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, has caught out at least one ancient historian. The Armenians, an ancient peoples of West Asia, can be dated back thousands of years. Darius the Great of Persia spoke of them