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Recent aDNA studies of ancient Rome have shown a significant east mediterranean shift in ancestry, starting from late republic and intensifying during the imperial era. The ancestry is Levantine/Anatolian-like. What is said in ancient sources about this phenomenon of "Easternization" in Rome?

by /u/Soap_MacLavish in /r/AskHistorians

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