[HN Gopher] Ancient gold burial mask found to be painted with hu...
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       Ancient gold burial mask found to be painted with human blood
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2021-10-30 01:21 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | Xunxi wrote:
       | I'm curious whether it is possible to extract and trace DNA down
       | to existing relations from such a specimen.
        
         | Pulcinella wrote:
         | Doing some quick searching[0], it seems that DNA has a half
         | life of ~500 years, which is much longer than I originally
         | would have guessed. Still, I imagine being in contact with
         | metal might significantly speed up the degradation. Metal and
         | metal ions tend to catalyze all sorts of reactions.
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         | [0]https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11555
        
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