However, the success of a 2020 examine on Armenian genetics "strongly reject" this prolonged-standing narrative, and displays that Armenians are genetically unique from the ancient populations of the Balkans. Up until lately, it was hypothesized that the Armenian men and women migrated from the Balkans into the Armenian Highlands, centered on a passage by Herodotus in the fifth century BC professing a kinship in between Armenians and Phrygians.