[Renfield]

Ping

[Sacajaweau]

But...but....it can’t be...we’re all descended from apes and I’ve never see a white ape.

[Daveinyork]

More than likely they were the same racial stock as the Achaean Greeks and the Hittites.

[D Rider]

Indeed, the Minoan shared the greatest percentage of their mitochondrial DNA variation with European populations, especially those in Northern and Western Europe.

When Atlantis sank we went north. ;)

[Gaffer]

Then, the DNA is raciss!

[bravo whiskey]

So all white people are cretans now. That explains everything.

[sphinx]

I thought it was well established that Minoan script is a form of early Greek.

[relictele]

This explains the lack of graffiti found in archaeological digs.

[yarddog]

I have never read or heard of them being anything but Caucasian.

[Mount Athos]

Just had to look at their frescoes

[BenLurkin]

I bet $10 that the guys who owned one of these things -- -- would rub them with their thumbs for "good luck".

[Jan_Sobieski]

Dr. Steven Collins is excavating what he believes is Sodom and Gamorrah in Jordan right now (just outside the Dead Sea). They are finding what they believe to be Minoan artifacts.

The Minoans, like sodom and Gamorah, practiced paderastria. History says that the Minoans were destroyed by a cataclysmic volcanic event, similar to Sodom and Gamorah.

[ought-six]

All I know about the Minoans is that their women went around bare-breasted. Now, that’s civilized!

[yarddog]

I think the Minoans came from Europe but it really doesn’t matter. North Africans were also Caucasian.

Crete has always fascinated me because no one really knows much about them from ancient times. The early Greeks clearly had Crete as dominating them for a long time then around the time of Agamemnon, the Mainland Greeks began to dominate the Aegean.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Renfield. I think a topic about this was posted a year or so ago, but anyway, here's a ping.

But the culture was lost until British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans unearthed its remains on Crete in 1900, where he found vestiges of a civilisation he believed was formed by refugees from northern Egypt.

Evans was an autocratic jackass who managed to destroy the first batch of inscribed tablets excavated at Knossos, and refused to publish 99 percent during his lifetime, insisting that they could NOT be in Greek (Linear B is in Greek; Linear A is not), and struggled to find another language, any other language. He failed. As noted in Lost Languages: The Enigma Of The World's Undeciphered Scripts Evans actually found a Greek word in one of the texts, discussed it, and used it as an example of how false translations creep in. In the reconstruction of Knossos he reproduced wall art based on either his imagination or then-current hair styles and fashions from the UK.

[ZULU]

Uhhh. North Africans like Berbers, Ancient Egyptians and Ancient Libyans were Caucasoid. The Black African element came later with Muslim slave traders.

[Varda]

I think the problem lay with the headline writer. He/she/it believes that if someone is African then they are not Caucasion. As others have said the North Africans are/were Caucasion and in anthropology that is not in dispute.

Nobody on the science side said anything about race. They are just saying the DNA shows an affinity with ancient near easterners of the same population that gave rise to later populations of europeans. Some had believed the Minoans had come from the same population that gave rise to the Egyptian civilization.

Read the paper here: A European population in Minoan Bronze Age Crete

[Deplorable American1776]

How racist!! 😋

[Larry Lucido]

DNA analysis has debunked

Jerry: I thought that was debunked.

Elaine: No, it's not debunked, it's totally bunk.

Jerry: Isn't bunk bad? Like, that's a lot of bunk.

George: No something is bunk and then you debunk it.

Jerry: What?

Elaine: Huh?

[Larry Lucido]

Darryl: "So, we're just a couple of white people?"
Elaine: "I guess."
Darryl: "Oh."
Elaine: "Yeah. So do you want to go to the Gap?"
Darryl, leaving with Elaine: "Sure."