Excavated DNA from Two Khazar Burials

" To understand a biological tribal affiliation (in terms of Y-chromosomal haplogroups,
subclades, and haplotypes) of two excavated Khazar bone remains
in the lower Don region in the south of Russia, we have extracted and analyzed
their DNA and showed that both belonged to haplogroup R1a and its
subclade Z93. The pattern could be considered typically “Turkic”, and not a
Jewish DNA lineage. Their haplotypes were also identified and reported here.
The haplotypes indicate that both Khazars were unrelated to each other in a
sense that their common ancestor lived as long as 1500 - 2500 years earlier
than them, in the middle of the II millennium BC—beginning of the I millennium
BC, during typically Scythian times or somewhat earlier. Their
haplotypes are unrelated to well-known Jewish haplotypes of haplogroup
R1a."