The Tombs of Aidonia

The chamber-tomb cemetery of Aidonia, in the hills near Nemea, held a Mycenaean elite buried with exquisite gold signet rings and sealstones. Looters emptied the tombs in the 1970s; when the “Aidonia Treasure” surfaced at a New York auction in 1993, Greece fought for it and won, one of the founding battles of the antiquities-repatriation movement. These are the genomes of the people the treasure was made for.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Ancient DNA reveals admixture history and endogamy in the prehistoric Aegean.

Every Ancestry Map includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because these are a small group of real individuals, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances. That is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that the Tombs of Aidonia are your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about Ancestry Map, the full Global25 report.

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  Who were the Tombs of Aidonia?

  The Tombs of Aidonia (c. 1600-1200 BCE, Aidonia, Nemea, Greece) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 7 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Ancient DNA reveals admixture history and endogamy in the prehistoric Aegean".

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  What does "matching" the Tombs of Aidonia mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No, and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the Tombs of Aidonia?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestry Map, never sold separately. Order Ancestry Map, our Global25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

The catalog holds every published entry across three tiers. Browse the full Notable Matches directory. Nearby entries:

• The Trzciniec Culturec. 1650-1250 BCE

• The Bronze Age Armenians of Lchashenc. 1450-1200 BCE

• The Mycenaeans of Mygdaliac. 1600-1450 BCE

• The Palace of Nestor Burialsc. 1350-1000 BCE

• The Canaanitesc. 2000-1150 BCE

• The Proto-Illyriansc. 2600-300 BCE

• The Mycenaeans of Tirynsc. 1400-1050 BCE

• The Bronze Age Epirotes of Ammotoposc. 1275-1125 BCE

• The Nuragic Sardiniansc. 1300-1050 BCE

• The Citizens of Alalakhc. 2000-1350 BCE

• The Funadomari Jōmon Womanc. 1800-1500 BCE

• The Philistines of Ashkelonc. 1200-600 BCE