Who Were the Anglo-Saxons, Really? Ancient DNA Answers

For a century, historians argued: did the Anglo-Saxons invade Britain, or did a few warlords simply take over? In 2022, geneticists read the DNA of 460 medieval people — and the answer was neither. 🔎 In this video: The British woman who married into a migrant family at Dover What Gildas and Bede actually wrote The 76% result that ended a hundred-year debate Where the newcomers really came from Why the east and the south-west of England tell different stories The girl from Kent with West African ancestry What a person in England carries today Subscribe for more documentaries on the origins of peoples, told through ancient DNA. 📚 Sources: Gretzinger et al., Nature 2022 · Sayer et al., Current Archaeology 2022 · Bede, Ecclesiastical History · Gildas, On the Ruin of Britain Illustrations are AI-generated reconstructions. Narration: AI voice. #AngloSaxons #AncientDNA #History