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Well, I don't know about it being St. John the Baptist's bones; that's probably hype to get some funding. However, it certainly seems to be a first century AD complete genome from someone probably from the Middle East, and that's good enough for me!
I wonder if they're partnering with someone from one of the big labs to get all the juice out of it? Somebody e-mail Reich just in case he hasn't seen it!
Ed.I just found this 2012 article about it. What on earth is National Geographic waiting for?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...s-jesus-christ-bible-bulgaria-science-higham/
I would like to see a comparison between this 1st century middle easterner and populations such as Ashkenazi Jews, to see if any sort of admixture outside the middle east in AJs is plausible, or if 1st century middle easterners were very much southern European like, aka not changing much since the Neolithic.They should be able to break down this guy's genetic affinities to more than 'middle eastern'. That's very broad. Although the middle east has probably changed since then, if this is John the Baptist he should be closest to the modern inhabitants of the Levant.
"The bones turned out to be from a man who lived in the Middle East at the same time as Jesus, Higham said."
Do they already have dna? I noticed that in many of these articles they mention a geographical location but never specify haplogroups.
when? they didn't give the DNA results in the article.Most importantly we will have a DNA sequence of Roman era Near Easterner, finally.
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