I am super excited to share that MyHeritage has just launched a major and groundbreaking new DNA product: Ancient Origins, a feature that complements our DNA ethnicity reports and traces your origins up to 10,000 years into the past. Ancient Origins allows MyHeritage DNA customers to discover the ancient populations they descend from, such as Imperial Romans, Norse Vikings, Phoenicians, and Ancient Egyptians. MyHeritage is currently the only major genealogy service to offer such high-resolution ancient DNA ethnicity analysis.

Ancient Origins is the result of a new partnership between MyHeritage and Illustrative DNA, a startup company that is at the forefront of ancient ethnicity analysis. It compares an individual’s DNA to ancient DNA samples and populations from the Neolithic Period through the late Middle Ages, providing greater depth to the understanding of one’s ethnic makeup.

This is a rich feature that offers many different kinds of reports, including breakdowns from several different historical periods. See, for example, my Ancient Origins results from the Bronze Age:

We have also created a cool video you can also see and share.