What is the non-regional outside admixture layer?

Even for people fully from the Mediterranean islands, the model includes European, East Asian 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 · Mediterranean Islands

Thalassa

Your Mediterranean Island Roots

From the temples of Sicily to the nuraghi of Sardinia. We model your DNA against the ancient regional core (Minoan, Mycenaean, Nuragic Sardinian, Phoenician, Sicani, Daunian, Imperial & Republican Rome) and non-regional outside admixture, then show which of 9 communities you most resemble, with an AI narrative.

🏺 Ancient regional core (Minoan, Mycenaean, Nuragic, Phoenician)
🌍 Non-regional outside admixture layer (European, East Asian, Amerindian)
🌊 9 Mediterranean-island 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 Mediterranean-island ancestry. Works for any of the 9 communities: Sicilian, Sardinian, Maltese, Cypriot, Cretan, Aegean Islander, Southern Italian, Central Italian, and Mainland Greek. 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.

Sicilian

Sicily, Mediterranean crossroads of Greek, Punic, Roman, Arab and Norman layers over an ancient core

Sardinian

The most genetically conservative Mediterranean island, strong Nuragic Bronze Age continuity

Maltese

Malta, a Phoenician/Punic-Sicilian core with Sicilian and North African contact

Cypriot

Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean crossroads of Anatolian, Levantine and Aegean layers over an ancient core

Cretan

Crete, the Minoan Bronze Age heartland with later Mycenaean, Roman, Venetian and Ottoman layers

Aegean Islander

Cyclades and Dodecanese, Aegean Bronze Age (Cycladic/Minoan/Mycenaean) core with Anatolian coastal contact

Southern Italian

Apulia, Calabria, Campania and Basilicata, a Magna Graecia Greek colonial layer over an Italic Iron Age native core

Central Italian

Lazio, the Roman heartland with Etruscan and Italic Iron Age roots

Mainland Greek

Mainland Greece, an Aegean Bronze Age (Mycenaean) and Classical/Hellenistic core across Macedonia, Thessaly, Central Greece, the Peloponnese and Epirus

🔎 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 Mediterranean-island populations: Minoan (Bronze Age Crete), Mycenaean (Bronze Age Greece), Nuragic Sardinian (Bronze Age Sardinia), Phoenician, Sicani and Daunian (Iron Age).

🏛️ Classical & Roman ancestry

The era that followed the Iron Age for this region: Republican and Imperial Rome, modelled as its own period rather than folded into the Iron Age.

🌍 Non-regional outside admixture

Even for people fully from the region, we include European, East Asian 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 9 Mediterranean-island 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 Mediterranean-island context (e.g. J2 Anatolian/Aegean, E-M35 North African/Mediterranean, G2a Neolithic farmer).

58 reference populations

Your DNA is modelled against ancient Mediterranean-island proxies, modern community reference populations, and non-regional outside proxies.

Amerindian proxy

Amerindian (North) proxy · Amerindian (South) proxy

Ancient Mediterranean

Classical Greek colonist (Iron Age) · Daunian (Iron Age) · Minoan (Middle/Late Bronze Age) · Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) · Nuragic Sardinian (Bronze Age) · Phoenician (Iron Age) · Proto-Villanovan (Bronze Age) · Punic Ibiza (Iron Age) · Sicani (Iron Age) · Talayotic Balearic (Late Bronze Age)

Ancient regional populations

Early Greek, Tiryns & Nestor (Iron Age) · Mycenaean steppe-rich, Achaea (Late Bronze Age) · Northern Greek, Logkas (Middle Bronze Age)

Bronze Age sources

Han Bronze Age proxy (East Asian) · Steppe Yamnaya (Early Bronze) · Yoruba Bronze Age proxy (West African)

Classical/Roman sources

Han Classical proxy (East Asian) · Imperial Roman Italian (Classical) · Roman Republic Italian (Classical) · Yoruba Classical proxy (West African)

Deep ancestral sources

Anatolian Neolithic farmer · Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer (CHG) · Eastern Hunter-Gatherer (EHG) · Han (East Asian proxy) · Iranian Neolithic farmer · Steppe (Yamnaya) · Western Hunter-Gatherer (WHG) · Yoruba (West African proxy)

European host

Celtic (Ancient Gaul) · Germanic · NE European · NW European · S European · SE European · SW European · West European

Iron Age sources

Han Iron Age proxy (East Asian) · Yoruba Iron Age proxy (West African)

Medieval layers

Byzantine Chios Greek (Medieval)

Medieval sources

Arab/Moor (Medieval) · Byzantine Greek (Medieval) · Lombard (Medieval) · Norman (Medieval) · Ottoman Turkish (Medieval) · Venetian (Medieval)

Modern island communities

Aegean Islander · Central Italian · Cretan · Cypriot · Mainland Greek · Maltese · Sardinian · Sicilian · Sicilian (East) · Sicilian (West) · Southern Italian

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 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 group these 9 communities in one report? They share the same deep Bronze & Iron Age Mediterranean layers (Minoan/Mycenaean Aegean expansion, Phoenician/Punic colonization, native Italic peoples), the historical threads connecting the islands, southern Italy, mainland Greece (the Mycenaean homeland itself) and the Roman heartland of central Italy.

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

Get your Thalassa 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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📖 What is raw DNA & G25?

Frequently asked questions

Who is the Thalassa report for?

It is built for people of predominantly Mediterranean-island ancestry across any of 9 communities: Sicilian, Sardinian, Maltese, Cypriot, Cretan, Aegean Islander, Southern Italian, Central Italian, and Mainland Greek. If you are mostly of other ancestry, our Advanced Ancestry Report works better.

Why group these islands and Southern Italy in one report?

They share the same deep Bronze & Iron Age Mediterranean layers: the Minoan/Mycenaean Aegean world, Phoenician/Punic colonization, native Italic peoples like the Sicani and Daunians, and the Roman world that eventually bound the whole region together, the historical threads connecting the islands and the Italian mainland.

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 Minoan (Bronze Age Crete), Mycenaean (Bronze Age Greece), Nuragic Sardinian (Bronze Age Sardinia), Phoenician, Sicani, Daunian and Imperial & Republican Rome (Iron Age) populations, the archaeological proxies closest to the ancient peoples of the Mediterranean islands.

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 Mediterranean islands

Thalassa is a G25 ancestry report built specifically for the peoples of the Mediterranean islands. 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 Sicilian, Sardinian with deep Nuragic roots, Maltese, Cypriot at the Eastern Mediterranean crossroads, Cretan from the Minoan heartland, an Aegean Islander from the Cyclades or Dodecanese, Southern Italian from Apulia, Calabria, Campania or Basilicata, or Central Italian from Lazio: Thalassa 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 Thalassa report

Complete example reports, flip through every page: cover, ancient regional core, deep/Bronze/Iron/Medieval era breakdowns, community reference populations, haplogroups and the AI narrative.

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🇬🇷 Eleni · Cretan

100% Mediterranean-island regional core, a Minoan Bronze Age layer (74%), Phoenician Iron Age signal (52%), Imperial Roman Classical layer (91%), and an 83% Cretan community match.

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🇮🇹 Alberto · Sicilian

91% Mediterranean-island regional core, a Minoan Bronze Age layer, Phoenician Iron Age signal (50%), a strong Imperial Roman Classical layer (77%), and a 54% Sicilian community match.