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Human skeleton found on famed Antikythera shipwreck

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Two-thousand-year-old bones could yield first DNA from an ancient shipwreck victim.

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Marchant, J. Human skeleton found on famed Antikythera shipwreck. Nature 537, 462–463 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/537462a

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