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> The researchers even found a pair of close relatives (ca. second cousins) bridging the Mediterranean, one buried in a North African Punic site and one in Sici
by elevaet 1y ago
> The researchers even found a pair of close relatives (ca. second cousins) bridging the Mediterranean, one buried in a North African Punic site and one in Sicily.
This is from over 2500 years ago. How amazing is that, that we have this capacity in DNA analysis now to discover details like this from so long ago?
- ahazred8ta 1y agoIn the 1700s a ring was found in England, inscribed Silvianus with the name Senicianus scratched into it. In the 1800s a curse tablet was found 80 miles away, complaining that Senicianus stole the ring of Silvianus.
- numbsafari 1y agoAh, my precious…
- GolfPopper 1y agoThere are three different extant clay tablets from Ur (circa 1750 BCE) complaining about the wares of the copper merchant Ea-nāṣir. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir#Other_tablets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81...
- vanattab 1y agoThats seems less interesting to me because they where all found in the copper merchants house. So it was just a records cache.