There is a traditional historiography and some recently published books that argue that everything began with the Goths. At school, many generations had to memorize the endless list of their kings to consolidate an official narrative that saw in those Germanic elites the first stone of the future Spanish state. Genetically, however, their impact was much smaller, as demonstrated by an international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona, Harvard University, and the University of the Basque Country (EHU), and published in the journal Cell.