The blood preserved in the preserved relic pumpkin did not belong to Louis XVI
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 12:20
in Biology & Nature
The results of an international study indicate that the DNA recovered from the inside of a pumpkin, attributed so far to the French King Louis XVI, does not actually belong to the monarch, guillotined in 1793. Complete genome sequencing suggests that blood remains correspond to a male with brown eyes, instead of blue as Louis XVI had, and shorter.