Reconstructed portrait of the "Lady in the Well", Alalakh, near present-day Antakya, Türkiye. This woman was mysteriously thrown to her death at the bottom of a well circa 1600 BCE. She was genetically foreign to the area; despite most samples from Alalakh clustering with contemporary Levantine populations, the Lady in the Well's origins lay in what is now Uzbekistan, and she is distantly related to modern-day Pakistanis. I had posted her here as earlier genetic analyses suggested a close relation between me and her; more recent and advanced analyses no longer suggest this to be the case.
