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Ancient DNA can reveal the mystery of the Dead Sea book
The Dead Sea book is made up of tens of thousands of manuscript pieces made primarily of parchment or animal skin.
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The Dead Sea book is made up of tens of thousands of manuscript pieces made primarily of parchment or animal skin.
It is very rare to find people who live with DNA almost unchanged for 8000 years. The ancient world had crazy migrations and genome disturbances everywhere.
New England University experts at Armidale studied ancient DNA (called DNA mitochondria) in 48 ancient chicken bones and found similar traces present in chickens everywh…