Are todays Greeks really a mix of Gypsies, Slavs, Jews, Turks, Northern Africans, etc?
The Greeks are pretty much the same as they were in classical times. They’ve just had a little spice thrown into the pot. They’ve picked up a lot of Arab and Berber Y chromosomes in Greece from the Moorish invasions, but these people are are still fairly light, and even have blond and red hair sometimes, so it’s probably not made a lot of difference to their appearance. The hilarious answer above me.. Have you seen any Greek statues? Not well known for their Afro’s, wide lips or any other African features. Non Caucasian DNA in Greece is less than 2%, and they’ve found two skulls of black Africans TOTAL in ancient Greece. The ancient Greeks are much more likely to be the descendants of the Vinca or Trypillians in the Balkan areas, the area their own legends describe them as coming from. These cultures had chariots, copper working and towns of over ten thousand people when Egypt was stll a few scattered farmers. There’s some evidence that a writing system was in use there before the midd
