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The Armenians show signatures of an origin from a mixture of diverse populations occurring from 3000 to 2000 bce. This period spans the Bronze Age, characterized by extensive use of metals in farming tools, chariots, and weapons, accompanied by development of the earliest writing systems and the establishment of trade routes and commerce. Many civilizations such as in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus valley grew to prominence. Major population expansions followed, triggered by advances in transportation technology and the pursuit of resources. Our admixture tests show that Armenian genomes carry signals of an extensive population mixture during this period. We note that these mixture dates also coincide with the legendary establishment of Armenia in 2492 bce. Admixture signals decrease to insignificant levels after 1200 bce, a time when Bronze Age civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean world suddenly collapsed, with major cities being destroyed or abandoned and most trade routes disrupted. This appears to have caused Armenians’ isolation from their surroundings, subsequently sustained by the cultural/linguistic/religious distinctiveness that persists until today.

Why do some academics insist on saying “BCE” instead of “BC”.

That doesn’t change the fact that calendar years are based on the time of Christ’s birth.

Yes I know Jesus was not actually born in 1 AD. The point is, they still use the same year designation.

Islamic Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1923, at least 3.5 million Christian Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians ... unable to defend themselves, were rounded up by moslems, then raped and executed.

Omar’s moslem people did something.

Armenians form a distinctive cluster bounded by Europeans, Near Easterners, and the Caucasus populations. Armenians are close to (1) Spaniards, Italians, and Romanians from Europe; (2) Lebanese, Jews, Druze, and Cypriots from the Near East; and (3) Georgians and Abkhazians from the Caucasus The chart shows Western European and Sub-Saharan Africa genes from 4,000 BC in the Armenians.

It really is incredible to think how mobile ancient civilizations were 2,000 to 4,000 BC. It must of been a combination of trade routes, militaries on the move, and large human migrations. Randy young men moving vast distances into parts unknown, bedding and impregnating the local young women. Did any of the foreign men marry and settle down? Was it consensual illegitimate sex before the men moved on? How many bloodlines were created by rape?

No matter the way the girls got impregnated, it was widespread and common enough to mark the entire ancestral genetic line of the Armenians.