For me, the conclusions about the potential diseases are interesting, but not terribly so. I just find it remarkable how many bits of information we can now ext

For me, the conclusions about the potential diseases are interesting, but not terribly so. I just find it remarkable how many bits of information we can now extract from old uncontaminated [1] documents. Viruses, bacteria, fungi, insects. And the conclusions we can draw from these. [1] The authors seem to have gone to great length to verify that the letters were not contaminated. Among other things, they created and touched a modern letter, which they also analyzed. Remarkably only 20 peptides were in common between old and new.