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 🧬
A skeleton in a special tomb with a burial chamber in the Archaeological Park of Pompeii
The shape, structure, and length of the skeletons indicated that one set of remains belonged to a man who was aged between 35 and 40 years at the time of his death, while the other belonged to a woman aged over 50. Further analysis of his DNA identified groups of genes commonly found in people from Sardinia, but not among other people who lived in Italy during the Roman Imperial age.
The analysis of his genome also suggests that the man was suffering from tuberculosis at the time of his death. Pictured: the fourth lumbar vertebra affected by tuberculous spondylodiscitis
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