Multicultural London, DNA, Gladiator, Mansell Street Man, Harper Road Woman

A DNA study has confirmed that London was an ethnically diverse city from its very beginnings, BBC News has learned. The analysis reveals what some of the very first Londoners looked like and where they came from. These initial results come from four people: two had origins from outside Europe, another was from continental Europe and one was a native Briton.The researchers plan to analyse more of the 20,000 human remains stored at the Museum of London. According to Caroline McDonald, who is a senior curator at the museum, London was a cosmopolitan city from the moment it was created following the Roman invasion 2,000 years ago.

BBC News Article

"The thing to remember with the original Londoners is that they were not born here. Every first-generation Londoner was from somewhere else - whether it was somewhere else in Britain, somewhere else on the continent, somewhere else in the Mediterranean, somewhere else from Africa," she said. "So the stories we can tell about our ancient population are absolutely relevant to modern contemporary London because these are our stories - these are people just like us."

Working with scientists at Durham University and an ancient DNA lab at McMaster University in Canada, museum researchers were able to reconstruct the DNA of four individuals. They come from a collection of 20,000 human remains from London stretching back 5,500 years. Further analyses will greatly add to our knowledge of the history of the city and enable researchers to view events through the eyes of people that lived in it at the time, according to Ms McDonald.

A Daily Mail Article, a UK Newspaper

"Their stories are written in their bones and these were stories we did not realise until we did this scientific analysis," she told BBC News. The Lant Street teenager: The most complete skeleton studied was that of a 14-year-old girl, who the museum curators have named "The Lant Street teenager". Analysis of her DNA and chemicals in her teeth show that she grew up in North Africa. Her mitochondrial DNA lineage (passed down on the maternal line only) is common in southern and Eastern Europe. At first, very reluctant to print the article but once published, they never repeat or promote their publication knowing fully well that the general members of the public has a very short memory indeed.

A Black girl with curly long hair and Blue Eyes

The teenager had blue eyes and yet there were things about her skeleton that suggested some she had Sub-Saharan African ancestry. Like many people living in the capital today, she had travelled a long distance to be in London. Archaeologists build up a picture of individuals from the belongings they are buried with.

But "The Mansell Street man" was found with nothing. According to Dr Rebecca Redfern, another Museum of London curator, until the emergence of new ancient DNA and chemical analysis techniques, these were the people who had slipped through the cracks of history.

"Most of the human remains in our collection don't have any coffin plates or any sort of biographical information, so by doing these types of studies we are able to show where people came from and learn more about them as a person, about aspects of their physical appearance, and so we can really give people back their voices," she said. The analysis showed that Mansell Street man was over 45 years old with very dark brown hair and brown eyes. His mitochondrial DNA line was from North Africa and his remains show African traits as well.

However, the chemical make-up of his teeth shows he grew up in London. His skeleton indicates that he had a form of bone disease that today is associated with diabetes caused by a protein-rich diet. That has come as a huge surprise to researchers because in modern populations this is a disease that mostly afflicts white males from the West.

A Black boy with Blue Eyes

So the discovery will be of great interest to medical researchers. This man was possibly a gladiator. His skull was found in a pit along with the heads of 38 other men aged between 18 and 45 - all of whom had met a violent end. This particular individual was 36-45 when he died.

He had suffered serious injuries to his skull that had healed, so he had led a violent life up to his death. His mother's ancestral line is common in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

The Gladiator was not born in London, but he met a tragic end in the city. His head was removed from his body and probably left exposed in these pits for passers-by to see.

The Harper Road woman: "The Harper Road" woman was a first-generation Londoner. She had brown hair and brown eyes and died a handful of years after the city had been settled - shortly after Britain had been invaded by the Roman Empire in AD 43. She is buried with Roman pottery and belongings. When researchers checked the chemicals in her teeth, they confirmed she had been born in Britain. Ms McDonald was intrigued by the fact that a native Briton adopted a Roman lifestyle within a few years of the conquest.

"What this is telling us is that people's identities were very, very fluid... her family wanted to portray a certain Roman style of identity. The Harper Road woman would have adapted her identity depending on who she was meeting - the way that we all do," she said.

A Black boy with Brown Eyes and Straight Hair

An added twist to the Harper Road woman's tale is that her chromosomes show that she was genetically a male - even though physically she was a woman - another feature that will intrigue modern-day researchers.

Waiting in the wings are thousands more people in the Museum of London's store house that the researchers are eager to learn more about. Next on their list are more Roman Londoners, then a group of Napoleonic soldiers and marines that were buried in Greenwich, followed by a group of medieval monks.

"We would like to do an awful lot more because everyone has their own story to tell - so the more people we are able to analyse the more stories we can tell about London," says Dr Redfern.

The research, and skeletons used for analysis will form a new display at the Museum of London opening on 27 November 2015. Please compare the information above; with historical information the British were teaching just twenty years ago. A person of reasonable intelligence would say that they bear no relation. So where did the British get the information that they "USED" to teach?
Like ALL Glorified Caucasian type History; THEY SIMPLY MADE IT UP! Fake portraits/artifacts and all!

Black boy with Kinky Cotton Wool Hair and Blue Eyes

Why aren’t David MacRitchie’s works prominently displayed and referenced here? Simple – his use of the words Fairies and Gypsies. David MacRitchie (1851-1925) was a Scottish folklorist and antiquarian.

David MacRitchie was a prominent proponent of the euhemeristic origin of fairies, a theory that considers fairies in British folklore to have been rooted in a historical pygmy, dwarf or short sized aboriginal race, that lived during Neolithic Britain or even earlier.

This is perfectly in keeping with the thinking of many anthropologists’ that the first African explorers/settlers of the world were diminutive people, i.e. Pygmies.

In his Book “Ancient and Modern Britons” MacRitchie asserts that the Gypsies were not of foreign origin, but were in fact the more conservative element of the native British population who had retained their nomadic way of life while the majority adopted a settled lifestyle. He further claimed that the ancient Britons were a dark-skinned people.

Ancient clay figure found at Hibernia Wharf London, undated

Many recent genetic studies have proved MacRitchie right on that and many other issues. But his use of the words, Fairies and Gypsies, so opens his works and theories to in-credulousness by the ignorant, and malicious derisiveness by those wishing to maintain the historical lies of the Albino people, that it didn’t seem to be worthwhile to use his work.

uotes of MacRitchie: MacRitchie believed that blacks were the original inhabitants of Northern Europe especially in Scandinavia, Wales, Scotland and Ireland going into the Middle Ages. He list numerous Vikings who he believes to be black.

"So that the Picts Proper and the Black Danes, being both Moors and both being "black strangers" or dubh galls, in the sight of the white races of Britain..." page 201, "Accepting this conclusion, then as, in the main, correct, we have before us undeniable evidence - historical and ethnological - of the immemorial presence of the blacks in this country [Great Britain] page 157-158:

"We know that the first inhabitants of Britain and more especially those of the northern parts, were craniologically of a type approaching to the Negro or the Australian race" Page 7-8, "The black herds of Scots and Picts' were all alike to British Gildas Page 216, "Therefore, it becomes evident that some race of Scandinavians must have been Black Huns also, with physical characteristics approaching those of the Pictish Moors... Page 110, "...yet there is word-evidence in our Islands [Great Britain], as elsewhere, of a time when a conquered race was of black colour."

A Copper Bust 

Page 37: "That the wild tribes of Ireland were black men is hinted by the fact that "a wild Irishmen" is in Gaelic "a black Irishman" (Dubh Eireannach). Left, a copper bust of a deity, possibly Mirnerva, found at the west Cambridge site, Cambridge England, UK, Roman period.

And that some of the natives of Scotland, as well as of England, were of this race also is evident when one remembers that, according to Skene, the powerful tribe of the Damnonii, which was the chief of the Maeatae, or marsh-dwellers, who were a part of the Picti or Caledonii, were probably relations of their namesakes of South-Western Britain; which indeed is almost a certainty, if nomenclature goes for anything" Page 45: Publications by MacRitchie include:

Ancient and Modern Britons, a Retrospect, 1884, Accounts of the Gypsies of India, 1886, The Testimony of Tradition, 1890, The Ainos, 1892, The Underground Life, 1892, Fians, Fairies and Picts, 1893, Scottish Gypsies under the Stewarts 1894, Pygmies in Northern Scotland, 1892, Some Hebridean Antiquities, 1895, Diary of a Tour through Great Britain, (editor) 1897,

The Northern Trolls, 1898, Memories of the Picts, 1900, Underground Dwellings, 1900, Fairy Mounds, 1900 Shelta, the Caird's Language, 1901, Hints of Evolution in Tradition, 1902, The Arctic Voyage of 1653, 1909,Celtic Civilisation, No date, Druids and Mound Dwellers, 1910, Les Pygmies chez les, Anciens Egyptiens et les Hebreux (with S.T.H. Horowitz), 1912, Les kayaks dans le nord de l'Europe, 1912, Great and Little Britain, 1915, The Celtic Numerals of Strathclyde, 1915, The Duns of the North, 1917, The Savages of Gaelic Tradition, 1920, The Aborigines of Shetland and Orkney, 1924. Left: A Copper Bust of a Deity, possible (Minerva?) fount at the West Cambridge site, Cambridge, England UK. Roman Period.

Egyptians, Sumerians, Mohenjo-daroans, Harappans, and Cretans, Elamites, and Nubians, were literate 3,000 years, 4,000 years, who knows how many thousands of years, before the world ever heard of Greeks or Romans. And there is ample evidence of their literacy.

Statue Head from Benwell, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England Uk, a Roman fort

Yet there is not one single entry: describing any of the people of their times, whether it be friends, foes, or invaders: or even more incredulously, there is not one single entry describing invading Whites in any of their literature.

Contrast that with Greek and Roman writings, in which these NEWLY literate people, after suffering through the "Dark ages" caused by the Caucasian invasion, describe EVERYTHING and EVERYONE - except themselves!

These discrepancies are of course, not accidental, nor for lack of material. Hopefully, the Caucasian type historians has simply withheld these material, and not destroyed them.

We are lied-to and oppressed, often comfort ourselves by believing that things are getting better, and perhaps in some ways that is so.

But in regards to the Caucasian-isation of Black history, well, in that regard things are definitely getting worst!

It comes as a shock to some, that the current, and very false assertion by the Caucasian type historians that they are native to Europe, is NEW!

Surprisingly, many eminent Caucasian scholars of only a hundred years ago, freely admitted that Caucasian types, MOVED into Europe, and were NOT native to those lands. While they were in error on other things, some even correctly identified the Caucasian type homeland as Central Asia. The end of part 4 of 4. Next blog 23/12/18: Thomas Cromwell, House of Stuarts, Indentures, Black Jacobite, Black Irish and Hebrews from West Africa in the Caribbean and America. It is a 5 part articles.