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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nina Massey

First human genome from Pompeii sequenced

Researchers have successfully sequenced the human genome – DNA blueprint – of a man who died in Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Before this only short stretches of DNA from Pompeiian human and animal remains had been sequenced.

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