Hidden Stories: The Genetic Secrets Of Ancient Parchments
Monday, December 8, 2014 - 11:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
There are not a lot of new stories to be found by the humanities in ancient parchments, but millions of documents stored in archives could trace agricultural development across the centuries, thanks to increasingly progressive genetic sequencing techniques. Thanks to sequencing, vital information can be derived from the DNA of the parchment on which they are written. read more