What is the non-regional outside admixture layer?

Even for people fully from the Levant or Caucasus, the model includes European, East Asian, Sub-Saharan African and Amerindian proxies. This gives any real non-regional ancestry an escape valve instead of being force-fit onto the wrong regional population.

🏔️ New report · Levant & Caucasus

Ararat

Q: Who is the Ararat report for?

It is built for people of predominantly Levant or Caucasus ancestry across any of 13 communities: Maronite, Druze, Sunni Levantine, Alawite, Palestinian, Assyrian/Chaldean, Armenian, Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian, Circassian/Adyghe, Chechen/Ingush, and Ossetian. If you are mostly of other ancestry, our Advanced Ancestry Report is a better fit.

Q: Do I need a DNA test already?

Yes. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA or LivingDNA, or paste your G25 coordinates.

Your Levant & Caucasus Roots

From the cedars of Mount Lebanon to the peaks of the Caucasus. We model your DNA against the ancient regional core (Levant Iron Age, Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer, Kura-Araxes Bronze Age) and non-regional outside admixture, then show which of 13 communities you most resemble, with an AI narrative.

🏛️ Ancient regional core (Levant Iron Age, CHG, Kura-Araxes)
🌍 Non-regional outside admixture layer (European, East Asian, African, Amerindian)
🗻 13 Levant & Caucasus communities compared directly
🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA haplogroup classification
📊 Deep / Bronze Age / Iron Age period breakdowns
🤖 Results interpreted by Claude AI

⚠️ Designed for people of predominantly Levant or Caucasus ancestry. Works for any of the 13 communities: Maronite, Druze, Sunni Levantine, Alawite, Palestinian, Assyrian/Chaldean, Armenian, Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian, Circassian/Adyghe, Chechen/Ingush, and Ossetian. If you are mostly of other ancestry, the regional models are calibrated for fully-regional profiles and the fit will be poor; our Advanced Ancestry Report is a better choice.

1. Choose your community

Pick the community your family belongs to. Not sure? Choose "Let the model decide" and we compare you to every community automatically.

Maronite

Lebanese Christian community, Levantine core + Crusader-era European admixture layer

Druze

Highly endogamous Levantine community, minimal outside admixture

Sunni Levantine

Lebanon/Syria/Jordan/Palestine Sunni Arab, Levantine + Arabian/Islamic-conquest layer

Alawite

Syrian mountain-refuge isolate, Levantine core

Palestinian

Levantine continuity, Bronze/Iron Age Canaanite-Israelite emphasis

Assyrian/Chaldean

Mesopotamian + Levantine, Aramaic Christian continuity, distinct from Arab Muslim/Christian neighbors

Armenian

Caucasus/Anatolian homeland, Bronze Age Kura-Araxes + CHG layer

Georgian

Kartvelian Caucasus core

Svan

Georgian highland isolate, distinct sub-group

Mingrelian

Georgian highland isolate, distinct sub-group

Circassian/Adyghe

North Caucasus homeland

Chechen/Ingush

Vainakh, North Caucasus

Ossetian

Iranian-speaking Caucasus, Alan/Scythian steppe layer, genuinely distinct from neighbors

🔎 Let the model decide (auto)

We detect which community you are genetically closest to.

What your report models

🏛️ Ancient regional core

The deep root shared by Levant & Caucasus populations: Levant Iron Age (Israelite/Phoenician), Levant Neolithic & Chalcolithic, Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer (CHG), and Kura-Araxes Bronze Age Armenia.

🌍 Non-regional outside admixture

Even for people fully from the region, we include European, East Asian, Sub-Saharan African and Amerindian proxies, so any real outside ancestry is detected honestly instead of being force-fit onto the wrong regional population.

🗻 Community profile

Which of the 13 Levant & Caucasus communities your DNA most closely resembles, modelled directly against each community's modern reference population.

🧬 Y-DNA & mtDNA lineages

If your raw DNA file is available, we classify your paternal and maternal haplogroups in a Levant/Caucasus context (e.g. J1/J2 Near Eastern, G2a Caucasus Neolithic, R1a Steppe-influenced).

153 reference populations

Your DNA is modelled against ancient Levant & Caucasus proxies, modern community reference populations, and non-regional outside proxies.

Amerindian proxy

Amerindian (North) proxy · Amerindian (South) proxy

Ancient Jewish reference (Roman era)

Croatia Late Antiquity Sisak (East Med/Western Jewish Profile) · Italy Lazio Roman Empire Isola Sacra (East Med/Western Jewish Profile) · Italy Sardinia Roman Empire Aho M. Carru (Proto-Western Jew Profile)

Ancient Levant

Canaanite (Middle/Late Bronze Age) · Israel Akhziv Phoenician · Israelite (Iron Age) · Levant Chalcolithic · Phoenician (Iron Age)

Arabian host

Emirati Arab (Arabian Profile) · Omani Arab · Qatari Arab · Saudi · Yemeni

Bronze Age sources

Andaman Islands Bronze Age proxy (Great Andamanese) · BMAC Bronze Age (Bustan, Uzbekistan) · BMAC Bronze Age (Dzharkutan, Uzbekistan) · BMAC Bronze Age (Gonur Tepe, Turkmenistan) · BMAC Bronze Age (Sappali Tepe, Uzbekistan) · Caucasus Bronze Age (Kura-Araxes, Armenia) · Central European Bronze (Unetice) · Han Bronze Age proxy (East Asian) · India Roopkund Bronze Age proxy (South Asian Profile) · Iranian Bronze Age (Shahr-i-Sokhta) · Iranian Bronze Age (Tepe Hissar) · Iranian Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (Shah Tepe) · Italian Bronze Age · Mycenaean Greek (Bronze Age) · Sardinian Nuragic (Bronze) · Shahr-i-Sokhta Bronze Age (Indus Valley Profile) · Steppe Yamnaya (Early Bronze) · Yoruba Bronze Age proxy (West African)

Caucasus

Mingrelian · Ossetian · Svan

Caucasus host

Armenian · Azerbaijani · Chechen · Circassian (Kabardian) · Georgian

Central-Asian host

Kazakh · Kyrgyz (Bishkek) · Tajik · Turkmen · Uzbek

Deep ancestral sources

Anatolian Neolithic farmer · Andaman Islands (Great Andamanese) · Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer (CHG) · Eastern Hunter-Gatherer (EHG) · Han (East Asian proxy) · India Roopkund deep proxy (South Asian Profile) · Iranian Neolithic farmer · Levant Neolithic (PPNB) · Natufian (Levant forager) · Steppe (Yamnaya) · Western Hunter-Gatherer (WHG) · Yoruba (West African proxy)

European host

Lithuanian · NE European · NW European · Polish · S European · SE European · SW European · Ukrainian · West European

Horn-of-Africa host

Eritrean (Tigrinya) · Ethiopian (Agaw) · Ethiopian (Amhara) · Ethiopian (Tigray) · Somali (Somalia)

Indian host

Gujarati · Malayali (Nair, Kerala) · Marathi (Maharashtra) · South Indian (Tamil)

Iron Age sources

Achaemenid-era Armenia (Harjis) · Achaemenid-Seleucid Persia (Marsin-Chal) · Anatolian (Iron Age) · Andaman Islands Iron Age proxy (Great Andamanese) · Celtiberian (Iron Age) · Celtic La Tene (Central Europe) · Han Iron Age proxy (East Asian) · Iberian (Iron Age) · Iberian Kingdom of Georgia (Kamarakhevi) · Imperial Roman Italian · India Roopkund Early Medieval (South Asian Profile) · Iranian Iron Age (Hasanlu) · Pakistan Iron Age Loebanr (Swat Valley) · Parthian Persia (Liar-Sang-Bon) · Roman Republic Italian (Iron Age) · Saka, Iron Age (Caspan, Kazakhstan) · Sarmatian, Iron Age (Aigyrly, Kazakhstan) · Urartian Armenia (Bardzryal) · Yoruba Iron Age proxy (West African)

Jewish reference

Algerian Jew · Ashkenazi Jew · Ashkenazi Jew (Germany) · Belmonte Jew · Bukharian Jew · Bulgarian Jew · Cochin Jew · Ethiopian Jew · Georgian Jew · Iranian Jew · Iraqi Jew · Italian Jew · Karaite Jew (Egypt) · Karaite Jew (Iraq) · Kurdish Jew · Libyan Jew · Moroccan Jew · Mountain Jew (Dagestan) · Mumbai Jew (Bene Israel) · Nash Didan Jew (Urmia) · Romaniote Jew · Samaritan · Syrian Jew · Tunisian Jew · Turkish Jew · Yemenite Jew

Levant

Alawite · Assyrian · Druze

Medieval Jewish reference

Medieval Ashkenazi (Erfurt, Eastern) · Medieval Ashkenazi (Erfurt, Western) · Medieval Tzarfati Jew (Norwich) · Sephardic Jew (Medieval Tàrrega, Spain)

Middle-Eastern host

Iranian (Persian) · Iraqi Arab · Jordanian (Arab Muslim) · Lebanese (Arab Christian) · Palestinian (Arab Muslim) · Syrian

Modern Jewish community

Ashkenazi Jew (Belarus) · Ashkenazi Jew (Lithuania) · Ashkenazi Jew (Poland) · Ashkenazi Jew (Russia) · Ashkenazi Jew (Ukraine) · Cochin Jew (Paradesi) · Mountain Jew (Azerbaijan) · Mountain Jew (Chechnya) · Mountain Jew (Ciscaucasia) · Mountain Jew (Kabardino-Balkaria) · Salonika Sephardic Jew (Greece) · Telugu Jew (Bene Ephraim)

North-African host

Algerian · Berber (Algeria, Kabyle) · Egyptian (Arab Muslim) · Libyan Arab · Moroccan (North) · Moroccan (South) · Tunisian

Being honest about the method

🔬 How to read your results (please read)

Your result is computed by genetic similarity (Global25): we place your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space and find the mixture that best reproduces your profile. Every reference population in our panel uses real, official G25 coordinates (published academic ancient-DNA studies and the official Global25 dataset) — none of our reference data is simulated or synthetic.

This is not a religious, national, or political determination of identity, and it is not a proof of belonging to any specific community. Fine distinctions between neighbouring communities can overlap in G25 and are best-fit estimates.

Why combine the Levant and the Caucasus in one report? Circassians and Armenians both have a real, documented diaspora into the Levant (Circassian exile into Jordan and Syria after 1864, Armenian genocide survivors settling in Lebanon and Syria), the historical bridge connecting the two regions here.

⚠️ Designed for predominantly Levant or Caucasus ancestry. If you are mostly of other ancestry, the models are calibrated for fully-regional profiles and the fit will be poor.

Get your Ararat report

Select your community above, then confirm your email. We send you a secure link to upload your DNA (raw file or G25 coordinates) and generate your personalised report.

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Email (for the paid PDF)

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Secure checkout after email verification. Your DNA is processed automatically and deleted; no human sees it.

📖 What is raw DNA & G25?

Frequently asked questions

Who is the Ararat report for?

It is built for people of predominantly Levant or Caucasus ancestry across any of 13 communities: Maronite, Druze, Sunni Levantine, Alawite, Palestinian, Assyrian/Chaldean, Armenian, Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian, Circassian/Adyghe, Chechen/Ingush, and Ossetian. If you are mostly of other ancestry, our Advanced Ancestry Report works better.

Why combine the Levant and the Caucasus in one report?

Circassians and Armenians both have a real, documented diaspora into the Levant (Circassian exile into Jordan and Syria after 1864, Armenian genocide survivors settling in Lebanon and Syria), the historical bridge connecting the two regions.

Do I need to have taken a DNA test already?

Yes. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA or LivingDNA, or paste your G25 coordinates.

What is the "ancient regional core" in the report?

We model your DNA against Levant Iron Age (Israelite/Phoenician), Levant Neolithic/Chalcolithic, Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer (CHG), and Kura-Araxes Bronze Age populations, the archaeological proxies closest to the ancient peoples of these two regions.

How much does it cost and what do I get?

€15. A full PDF report with your ancient regional core %, non-regional outside admixture breakdown, best-fit ancestry models with their fits, closest modern community reference populations, Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups (if raw file provided), and a narrative interpreted by Claude AI.

A DNA report for the Levant & the Caucasus

Ararat is a G25 ancestry report built specifically for the peoples of the Levant and the Caucasus. Upload your raw DNA file from 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage or FamilyTreeDNA, pick your community, and we model your genome against the ancient regional core plus non-regional outside admixture.

Whether you are Maronite from Mount Lebanon, Druze, Armenian from the Caucasus or the Lebanese diaspora, Georgian, Circassian/Adyghe, Assyrian/Chaldean, or from any other Levant or Caucasus community: Ararat models the specific genetic layers of your region's history.

The report uses the Global25 (G25) system developed by geneticist Davidski, placing your DNA in a 25-dimension genetic space alongside ancient and modern reference populations, all sourced from Davidski's official Global25 datasheets.

👁 Sample report

See a real Ararat report

Complete example reports, flip through every page: cover, ancient regional core, non-regional outside admixture, era breakdown models, community reference populations, haplogroups and the AI narrative.

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🇦🇲 Andranik · Armenian

Caucasus core, Kura-Araxes Bronze Age & CHG modeling, community reference fit, haplogroups and AI narrative.

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🇱🇧 Robert · Maronite

Textbook Maronite signature: 92% regional core, 88.1% Lebanese (Arab Christian) community fit, ancient Canaanite-Phoenician-Israelite core and AI narrative.