2,000-year-old skeleton found in Greek shipwreck

This video, recorded in Greece, says about itself:

The famous shipwreck that brought us the mysterious Antikythera mechanism has revealed a new secret: a two thousand year old human skeleton. The team hopes to extract DNA from the skull – a feat never attempted before on bones this old that have been underwater.

Read Nature‘s news article here.

Read about the Return to Antikythera project here.

19th September 2016

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