First-degree incest: ancient genomes uncover Irish passage tomb dynastic elite
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 18:22
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Archaeologists and geneticists have shed new light on the earliest periods of Ireland's human history. Among their incredible findings is the discovery that the genome of an adult male buried in the heart of the Newgrange passage tomb points to first-degree incest, implying he was among a ruling social elite akin to the similarly inbred Inca god-kings and Egyptian pharaohs.