DNA from the bones of a man who died in the volcanic eruption that consumed Pompeii in AD 79 has been used to sequence his genome
. The first complete genome from Pompeii reveals genetic markers that haven’t been seen before in ancient Roman DNA.
But Scorrano and his colleagues decided to look for ancient DNA anyway. They focused on the skeletal remains of two people discovered in a building called the Casa del Fabbro, which translates to House of the Craftsman. The pair – a man in his 30s and a woman who was at least 50 years old – seem to have been lying on a low couch in what may have been a dining room at the moment they died.
“Undoubtedly, there is still a lot to study about genetics of the past peoples in the Italian peninsula,” says Scorrano.
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