Prof. Pierre Zalloua

And they came and they took over and they destroyed, well, they dominated Sumer.

And then after that, you know, you had so many different cultures that actually fought.

You had the Babylonians, right?

You had the Assyrians.

And

So all of these people actually that moved in that region make our work extremely difficult to understand.

But at the end of the day, when you do the analysis, you see that all of these actually came from these three distinct original cultures.

which I think fascinating.

If I continue through that, so if we go from what happened to the Babylonians, then you have the Assyrians and the Neo-Assyrians that they actually came and they took over.

Neo-Assyrians actually took over the entire region up until North Egypt.

So they had a major presence.

So when all these cultures actually

dominate, you still, you say, you know, what am I doing now?

5,000 years later, what am I doing?

How can I actually decipher all of this?

So it's not an easy task.

So when I did my work on, and I say identity and the Levant, identity and DNA in the Levant, is just, I'm trying to figure out, you know,

you know, who are these people, you know, and when did they arrive and where did they come from?

So it's really fascinating when you start putting archaeology, history, and genetic together to understand our ancestry.

And that's what's fascinating about all of this.