From the Fertile Crescent to the Nile
Compare your DNA with ancient reference individuals from the Levant, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, and North Africa. Explore genetic similarity across archaeological contexts and time periods without treating a statistical match as proof of direct descent.
When the last Ice Age receded, a revolution began in the hills of the Levant. The Natufians were among the first to settle, to harvest wild grains, and to lay the foundations of agriculture.
From the Fertile Crescent, the Neolithic revolution spread outward. The people of Catalhoyuk built one of the world's earliest cities. In Mesopotamia, the Sumerians invented writing, the wheel, and the concept of law. Egypt's pharaohs raised monuments that still stand after five millennia.
The Phoenicians carried the alphabet across the Mediterranean. The Achaemenid Persians built an empire stretching from the Indus to the Nile. In North Africa, the peoples of the Maghreb and the Nile Valley wove together African and Near Eastern traditions into cultures of extraordinary depth and resilience.
Through every era, from the Epipaleolithic foragers of the Levant to the scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, the ancient blood endured. It flows through the peoples of the modern Middle East and North Africa, and through diaspora communities across the world.
"The desert remembers. The rivers remember. The stones remember. The story continues in you."
The first settlers of the Levant, pioneers of agriculture and the Neolithic revolution.
Pharaohs, pyramids, and the Nile Valley civilization that endured for three millennia.
Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians who invented writing and the rule of law.
Seafarers who carried the alphabet and trade across the Mediterranean world.
Builders of the largest empire the ancient world had known, from the Indus to the Nile.
Berbers, Carthaginians, and the diverse cultures of the Maghreb and the Saharan fringe.
Not just percentages. A journey into who your ancient Near Eastern ancestors truly were.
We scan your autosomal DNA in short segments and compare each one against every ancient Near Eastern genome using identical-by-state (IBS) segment matching, weighting longer, rarer shared segments more heavily.
A panel-specific 0-100 statistical similarity score weighting shared-segment evidence at 50%, ADMIXTURE distance at 31.25%, and Monte Carlo fit at 18.75%. It is not an ancestry percentage or proof of direct descent.
The fixed regional ADMIXTURE reference panel defines stable PCA axes; your kit is projected afterward without moving the reference samples.
See the real archaeological sites where your genetic kin were discovered, from the banks of the Nile to the ziggurats of Mesopotamia.
Your genetic affinity to each Near Eastern era: Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Classical, and Late Antiquity, all quantified.
Meet the ancient individual whose DNA resonates most with yours. Learn their story, their era, and their place in Near Eastern history.
Our AI assistant provides personalized explanations of your results, placing your genetic story in historical and archaeological context.
Discover connections to specific regions: the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Nile Valley, Anatolia, the Maghreb, the Arabian Peninsula, and more.
Find ancient Near Easterners who share your mtDNA maternal or Y-DNA paternal lineage, direct ancestry connections through hundreds of generations.
Understand whether your roots trace to the earliest Natufian foragers, Neolithic farmers, or later Bronze Age population expansions across the region.
Connect with famous sites like Ur, Giza, Persepolis, Byblos, Catalhoyuk, Jericho, and Carthage where your matches were found.
Your report includes an interactive map showing the exact archaeological sites across the Near East and North Africa where your genetic matches were discovered.
Explore the map preview below, or search the complete reference panel in the table. Genetic similarity to these individuals does not mean they are your real ancestors.
Map preview This map shows a preview of 150 of 1263 reference individuals used in this report. Search the complete list in the table below.
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This portrait is an AI-generated speculative reconstruction and may be historically or biologically inaccurate. It is not a photograph of the individual.
These portraits are AI-generated artistic interpretations, not photographs. The archaeological samples behind them are real, recovered from burial sites across the Near East and North Africa, their DNA preserved across millennia.
12000 BCE - 9500 BCE
7100 BCE - 6700 BCE
6903 BCE - 6601 BCE
3356 BCE - 3102 BCE
787 BCE - 546 BCE
1376 BCE - 1127 BCE
3200 BCE - 2100 BCE
750 CE - 900 CE
Ancient DNA, modern analysis. Advanced algorithms, transparent results.
We scan your autosomal DNA in short segments and compare each one against every ancient Near Eastern genome using identical-by-state (IBS) segment matching, weighting longer, rarer shared segments more heavily.
Advanced ADMIXTURE algorithms compare your genetic profile against reference populations across ancestral components, providing exceptional resolution for Ancient Near East & North Africa genetic similarity analysis.
The fixed regional ADMIXTURE reference panel defines stable PCA axes; your kit is projected afterward without moving the reference samples.
Your Ancient Near East & North Africa Index is a panel-specific statistical similarity score weighting shared-segment evidence at 50%, ADMIXTURE distance at 31.25%, and Monte Carlo fit at 18.75%. It is not an ancestry percentage or proof of direct descent.
Our Near East reference panel includes samples from the Levant, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, and North Africa, spanning over 12,000 years of human history.
All ancient DNA samples come from peer-reviewed academic publications, with full citations and links provided in your report. Science you can trust.
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See what awaits you in your personalized Ancient Near East & North Africa report. The figures below are illustrative examples, not a preview of your own results.
View Sample ReportOne similarity score built from three kinds of evidence, with every component shown in the report.
Similarity to reference individuals from each era, from earliest to latest.
Cultures
Regions
Which archaeological cultures and present-day regions your closest reference individuals come from.
Ancient individuals on the same maternal or paternal lineage branch, each labelled by the kind of evidence linking them to you.
Notable sites where reference samples were excavated, with historical context and periods of use.
Reference-fixed PCA chart: the Ancient Near East & North Africa reference panel defines the axes, and your sample is projected onto them.
All figures above are illustrative example values, not your results. Every report also includes print, CSV export and a shareable summary card.
Some stories are inherited. Others are remembered. Yours is waiting in the ancient lands of the Near East.
The desert remembers. The rivers remember. The stones remember. Now, so will you.
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