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Revealing the secrets of a 2900-year-old clay brick, discovering a time capsule of ancient DNA. Scientific Reports , 2023; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38191-w Cite This Page : ...

Researchers have extracted ancient plant DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick. ... The brick, from the ancient city of Kalhu in Iraq, ... Huge Roman 'jigsaw' reveals 2,000-year-old wall paintings.

A procession of gods marches across the wall of what may have been a royal mausoleum near Hattusa, capital of the lost Hittite Empire. The ancient city—in what is today central Türkiye—was ...

Revealing the secrets of a 2900 year old clay brick, discovering a time capsule of ancient DNA. Nature Scientific Reports . 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38191-w. This article has been republished ...

The clay brick dates back 2,900 years, when it was used in the construction of the palace of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II in the ancient city of Kalhu, known latterly as Nimrud.

Subsequent sequencing revealed that the mud brick contained DNA from 34 distinct groups of plants in the ancient clay, including many plants related to cabbages (Brassicaceae) and heathers ...

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Researchers have extracted ancient plant DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick. Experts at the University of Oxford collected samples from the artefact's inner core, which uncovered a "time capsule ...