A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old (IMAGE)

Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz

A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old

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A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU reconstructed the deceased's complete genome.

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photo/©: Richter/Kreisarchäologie Landshut

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