other ancient Egyptian artefacts on display in the museum’s many rooms and also artefacts from Biblical (the Old Testament), Roman, Greeco-Roman and Early Christian times and periods of history, as well as artefacts from many other world cultures – all being displayed in various rooms and ga...
Homo sapiensis not alone in subverting the biology of another species through a process of domestication; leafcutter ant species maintain fungus “gardens” as a source of food [2], while other ant species exploit aphids in a semi-symbiotic interaction in which the ant colony gains honeydew and...
The Leyden and Stockholm Papyri. Greco-Egyptian Chemical Documents From the Early 4th Century AD. An English Translation with Brief Notes by Caley, E.R. Edited, with a New General Introduction. A Note on Techniques, and a Materials Index by Jensen, W.B. The Oesper Collections in the Histo...
[39,40], which ultimately proved unreliable—notably generating spurious DNA sequences from a 2400-year-old Egyptian mummy [40]. A significant breakthrough in the late 1980s was amplification of aDNA from archaeological material and museum specimens using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) ...