For this project, I want to investigate the demographic history of the Middle East by applying multiple cluster-based and model-based methods under the supervision of Mattias Jakobsson and his team. The human past of the Middle East is particularly of interest because this geographical region is known as the birthplace/spiritual home of many religions and the origin of agriculture during the Neolithic time period. However, little is known about the migration patterns during the Bronze Age period and the Egyptian-Levantine nexus. Therefore, one of the project goals is to generate genome-wide data of ancient individuals from the Middle East to estimate the ancestral components during the Bronze Age using published available methods and explore the spread of the so-called Iranian-Neolithic ancestry component by performing a spatiotemporal interpolation. Besides the study of the ancestral components, I will also focus on socio-cultural-related patterns like the relationship between burial costumes and the genetic relationships of the individuals.