Ancient Maya Genomes Sequenced for First Time
14 June 2024 at 06:05
Thousand-year-old DNA from ChichΓ©n ItzΓ‘ offers eye-opening details of the religious rituals of ancient Maya.
Human remains were first discovered in the ancient Maya city of ChichΓ©n ItzΓ‘ in the 1960s while workers excavated land to build a proposed airport runway.
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