DNA studies though (and as similarly published by Greek Reporter on 9/18/21) point out that the extreme similarities between the Minoans and the Mycenaeans in art, in architecture, in their customs & traditions were most likely heritable connections and not influences as previously historians thought).

Finally, more recent DNA studies also pointed out that the mysterious Sea People (the boogeyman of the Bronze Age), who appeared in the Mediterranean sometime after the Santorini volcanic eruption of 1,646 BC, were actually of Minoan ancestry. Ironically enough though, after these people began settling in Cyprus and ultimately along the shores of modern-day Palestine, historians renamed them Philistines (a culture they thought originated in Cyprus).