Geneticists Revealed Thracians Were Never Who We Thought Here's What The DNA Shows

🔗 Explore, Support & Work With Us 📖 📚 Get My Book: https://mysticvoyage1.gumroad.com/ 💼 🎯 YouTube Channel Management Services: https://azeemautomation.com 🎥 ▶️ Explore Our Playlists:    / @mysticvoyagee   ☕ ❤️ Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mysticvoyage ⭐ 💎 Support Us on Patreon:   / mysticvoyage999   🔔 🎬 Join Our YouTube Membership:    / @mysticvoyagee   Thank you for supporting Mystic Voyage! ❤️ Your support helps us create more fascinating videos about history, DNA, genetics, and the mysteries of our past. Herodotus wrote that the Thracians were the most numerous people on earth after the Indians, and that if they ever united under one ruler they would be unstoppable. They never did. Then they seemed to disappear from history. Ancient DNA is now telling us who they really were and where they went. This documentary goes from the earliest modern humans at Bacho Kiro Cave and the gold of Varna to the Bronze Age mothers revealed by mitochondrial DNA, the red hair and tattoos described by Greek writers, and the golden Odrysian kingdom of Teres, Sitalces and Seuthes III. We visit the Panagyurishte and Rogozen treasures, the Kazanlak and Sveshtari tombs, Golyama Kosmatka and Seuthopolis, then follow Spartacus, the Roman conquest of Thrace, Maximinus Thrax, and the arrival of the Slavs and the Bulgars. Finally we look at what genetic studies say about how much Thracian-era ancestry survives in people of Bulgaria and the Balkans today, and what the limits of that evidence are. Chapters: 0:00 The people who could have ruled the world 2:01 Before there was Thrace 3:16 The mothers of the Bronze Age 4:58 Red hair and blue eyes 6:22 Kingdom of gold 8:44 Greeks, barbarians and legends 10:45 Rome swallows Thrace 12:23 Newcomers from the North 14:06 Where did the Thracians go? 16:22 The last of the Thracians Sources and further reading: Sarno et al. 2025, American Journal of Biological Anthropology; Modi et al. 2019, mitochondrial DNA of Bronze and Iron Age Bulgaria; Lazaridis et al. 2022, "The genetic history of the Southern Arc", Science; Mathieson et al. 2018, "The genomic history of southeastern Europe", Nature; Hublin et al. 2020, Nature (Bacho Kiro Cave); Olalde, Carrión et al. 2023, Cell; Herodotus, Histories, Book 5; Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 2. Percentages are ranges from published studies and vary by region and individual. Thracians, Thracian DNA, ancient DNA, Thracian history, Bulgaria history, Bulgarian DNA, Odrysian kingdom, Seuthes III, Panagyurishte treasure, Rogozen treasure, Kazanlak tomb, Sveshtari tomb, Golyama Kosmatka, Seuthopolis, Spartacus, Maximinus Thrax, Herodotus, Varna gold, Bacho Kiro, Slavs, Bulgars, Balkan genetics, genetic history, history documentary, genetics documentary, who were the Thracians #Thracians #DNA #AncientDNA #Bulgaria #BalkanHistory #Genetics #Ancestry #Documentary #History #Spartacus