Ancient DNA Reveals What Wiped Out Europes Megalith Builders 5,000 Years Ago Christian Scaroni [lCDXwcV4EnL]

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About thirty miles north of Paris, in the quiet countryside of northern France, there is a Stone Age olympiacos - panathinaikos tomb. From border control the outside, it looks like a low stone gallery, partially buried in the ground. From the inside, it is one of the most haunting archaeological sites in Europe.

The tomb contains the remains of one hundred thirty-two people. They were laid to rest in two distinct waves, separated by a long, silent gap. The first group devil may cry season 2 buried their dead there for about a hundred years, and then stopped. For centuries afterward, the tomb sat empty. Then, around the year twenty-nine hundred B.C., a completely different group of people arrived, opened the chamber, and began burying their own dead in the same place.

The two groups had never met. They were not related. And in April of two thousand twenty-six, an international team of geneticists revealed the most likely reason why.

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SOURCES & FURTHER READING

Primary study:

Seersholm, F.V., Ramse, A., Cao, J. et al. (2026). Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 10(4): 677688. Published April 3, 2026.

DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-03027-z

Official press releases:

University of Copenhagen via ScienceDaily Ancient DNA reveals a lost population near Paris replaced by strangers:

University of Gothenburg DNA evidence of a Stone Age population collapse in France:

News coverage:

ScienceAlert Mysterious Collapse Reshaped Europe 5,000 Years Ago, Scientists Say:

ZME Science DNA From a 5,000-year-old Tomb Reveals the Plague Might Have Wiped out Europe's First Farmers:

Arkeonews Ancient DNA Study Reveals Mysterious 5,000-Year Population Collapse in Neolithic Europe:

The Brighter Side of News DNA evidence points to a massive stone age population collapse:

Martin Cid Magazine 132 Stone Age genomes near Paris link plague to Europe's Neolithic collapse: