Latest from my lab: a genome from Roman Britain with ancestry related to groups from another corner of the Roman empire - Sarmatians.
— Pontus Skoglund (@pontus_skoglund) December 19, 2023
Fascinatingly, the individual lived around 175 AD, when Marcus Aurelius deployed 5500 Sarmatians from the eastern frontier to Britain, but no… https://t.co/c04yYNSJWx