sealed at the bottom of an ancient friggin' lake. “We can’t really get closer to the story of these people than by looking at their actual remains,” he said. In 2009, archaeologists were excavating the bottom of a prehistoric dry lake bed in Motala, Sweden, when they stumbled upon the foundations of a mysterious stone structure. The plans are to begin genetic tests as soon as the team receives permission from Greek authorities. The most recently found bones are much better preserved, he said, and they could provide information about where the individual came from as well as insight into facial features and diet. “If we analyze those remains we are more likely to pick up DNA from the curators or archaeologists rather than the remains of the ancient individual,” he said. But he added that even if they had known where the remnants were, testing probably would not have been useful because they most likely would have been contaminated by now. Cousteau is because they could not find the specimens. Schroeder said the reason the team had not done genetic testing on the bones found by Mr. In 1976 Jacques Cousteau had found a few bones as well, but he did not have the technology needed to genetically test them.ĭr.
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Aguada Fénix in Tabasco, Mexico, is a 3,000-year-old complex with a massive, earthen platform topped with a series of structures including a 13-foot-high pyramid identified early June 2020. (left) Seen via lidar (right) Image credits: Takeshi Inomata/. It’s not the first time that researchers have uncovered human remains from the site. Photograph of the ancient site of Aguada Fénix. Ancient DNA recovered from this part of the skull tends to be better preserved than samples from any other body part, including the teeth. But he is optimistic that they can retrieve some genetic material because the team recovered something called the petrous portion of the temporal bone, which is the hard part behind the ear. On July 14, just over a month after the discovery of the Hophra stela, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced a discovery that is also related to the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalema section of a massive fortification wall on the east slope of the city that had been torn down by the Babylonians (2 Kings 25:10). Microbes, oxygen and salt water at the bottom of the sea can be detrimental to the survival of ancient DNA, he said. They called in Hannes Schroeder, an ancient DNA researcher from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, to help determine whether they could extract genetic information from the bones.
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