Imperial Italian samples from Rome can be modeled as descending overwhelmingly from the mixed Greek-Anatolian population of Hellenistic Anatolia. I've only included non-outlier samples, representative of the average population.

The results were pretty much identical whichever post-Bronze Age Anatolian source I used, but the Hellenistic era source gave the best fit and is the most historically plausible, since the Romans conquered Hellenistic Anatolia.

I have no idea what the authors of the old Roman & Etruscan genetic studies were thinking when they modeled Imperial Italians as half Roman Republic + half Levantine.

It looks like they have no Republic-era central Italian ancestry at all - although G25 often confuses Roman Republic ancestry with Balkan or Continental Celtic ancestry, due to their genetic similarity. Any "Levantine" ancestry could also be Eastern Anatolian. It's possible that my model is terribly wrong somehow, but I doubt it.

To support my argument that the average Imperial Roman was basically a fresh-off-the-boat Hellenized Anatolian, here is a deep ancestry model comparing Imperial Romans to Greeks, Aegean Anatolians, and Central Anatolians from the Early Bronze Age to Roman periods.

I used two sets of Imperial Roman samples and both were most genetically similar to Anatolianized Greeks from the Roman period, Hellenized Anatolians, and Byzantine Anatolians (specifically from the Aegean coast).

btw India_RoopkundB = Greeks in India, not actual Indians.

If you give women testosterone, they become less aggressive and behave more fairly.

If you give women a placebo but they them it's testosterone, they become more aggressive and behave unfairly.

Here are some related posts with studies on testosterone:
https://t.iss.one/thuletide/4772
https://t.iss.one/thuletide/6039
https://t.iss.one/thuletide/8054
https://t.iss.one/thuletide/3444
https://t.iss.one/thuletide/6303

Tom Homan: "Even though [deportation] numbers are historic, I want more."

https://x.com/derzum_/status/2057198897492082702

After the collapse of the Roman Empire, 92% of Roman cities with ≥5,000 inhabitants were either depopulated (devolving into small towns or settlements) or destroyed.

For cities with ≥10,000 inhabitants, urbanization rates in formerly-Roman territories had still not recovered by the 18th century.

Kerry Sheron, 69-year-old patriotic veteran and owner of the "Trump House," was murdered in cold blood by mentally ill libtard, Thomas Caleb Butler.

Sheron's house had previously been vandalized on the 3rd, as per a Facebook video he uploaded - his American flags were torn in half and thrown across the road.

MSM is reporting that Butler somehow got PTSD from being in... the fucking NAVY. How?! The guy was probably insane before he signed up.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/21/us-news/trump-house-owners-wife-says-theres-no-hope-for-husband-after-attack/

https://nypost.com/2026/05/22/us-news/man-accused-of-beating-trump-house-superfan-has-violent-past-revealed/

Men prefer younger women and women prefer older men (the age gap preferred by women is actually >50% larger than that preferred by men).

Older men seek larger age gaps than younger men.

Wealthier men seek larger age gaps than poorer men.

More attractive men seek larger age gaps than less attractive men.

Some good empirical evidence that wealth, status, and looks can mitigate age-related sexual market value decline — to a degree, at least.

(n = >16,500 for both graphs)

#fertility