re: #173 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

And Joseph’s skin cells.

Here’s a longer article delving into the politics of extracting DNA from long dead pharaohs. medium.com

The igenea claim is certainly spurious. I need to edit my earlier post.

I plugged this show a couple days ago.
imdb.com

An English research lab did some tissue analysis (spectroscopic, not genetic), but they already had a retained sample from studies done decades ago. American archaeology is trapped in a lot of legal hassle over when is a bone up for study, when is it tribal heritage, and when is it someone’s great-uncle? No good answers that satisfy everybody.