Tag Archives: archaeology
A 4,000 year old dead man awakens
By Eske Willerslev For the first time an ancient genome of an extinct human being has been reconstructed in detail, giving a forensic look at a man from the forgotten past. Professor Eske Willerslev and his PhD student Morten Rasmussen, from Centre of Excellence in GeoGenetics, The Natural History Museum at the University of Copenhagen, [...]
DNA testing on 2,000-year-old bones in Italy reveal East Asian ancestry
By Jane Christmas Researchers excavating an ancient Roman cemetery made a surprising discovery when they extracted ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from one of the skeletons buried at the site: the 2,000-year-old bones revealed a maternal East Asian ancestry. Without the use of this CSI-style forensic technique, the descent of the deceased man would have remained [...]
