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Minoan genomes carry 9–17% Caucasus/Iran-related ancestry — the eastern component identified in 2017. A century of excavation had already traced the corridor that could have carried it: Urkesh, the Khabur, Arslantepe, Ugarit. That population was the Hurrian. Genetics and archaeology now converge, and Linear A begins to read in their light.
The six-minute version of the Hurrian Crete paper: who the Minoans and the Hurrians were, what the 2017 and 2023 genomes did and did not settle, and why the structure of Linear A points to the same population.
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