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Many Christians are aware of the Roman empire’s persecution of early Christians. Fewer, however, have heard about the far worse persecution that happened just east of Rome in Persia.

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The Oxus Civilisation (or Bactrio-Margian Archaeological Complex BMAC) was the main archaeological culture of the Bronze Age in Southern Central Asia. Paleogenetic analyses were previously conducted mainly on samples from the eastern part of BMAC. The population associated with BMAC descends from local Chalcolithic populations, with some outliers of steppe or South-Asian descent. Here, we present new genome-wide data for one individual from Ulug-depe (Turkmenistan), one of the main BMAC sites, located at the southwestern edge of the BMAC. We demonstrate that this individual genetically belongs...

HISTORY OF CAUCASUS: At the Crossroads of Empires by Chrisoph Baumer

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