Origins through DNA (General)

by Roger Griffiths , Thursday, July 19, 2012, 18:06 (4513 days ago) @ bristolloggerheads

I don't think this is just a commercial enterprise. Probably university basis. It's interesting you mention gypsies, it's only recently that their origins have been discovered. Northern Indian singers and dancers invited to the courts of the Persian shah's, a thousand years or more ago. Eventually they were excluded and wandered westwards into Europe. As it happens their arrival in England was recorded in 14??. They were called gypsies because the nearest apparent appearance was that of Egyptians. Europeans did not go global until towards the end of the 15th Century. It was an Oxford professor of linguistics who discovered the origins of the gipsies.