Hidden DNA in Ancient Gospel Reveals 3,500-Year History of Deadly Virus
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RESEARCHERS have discovered DNA from the sheeppox virus in medieval parchments. The discovery shows that the disease has threatened livestock for more than 3,700 years and helps to understand the evolution of the pathogen.
El Diario
eldiariodechihuahua.mxResearchers analyzed scrolls used in important historical manuscripts, including the York Gospels, the Corpus Glossary and copies of the Epistles of St. Paul
Two pages from the York Gospels and a third that was later bound with them carry the DNA of the virus that causes sheeppox, while the research team that found them managed to isolate a much older genome of the same virus from a sheep molar - radio-dated between 1875 and 1645 BC - from a Bronze Age settlement in central Kazakhstan. The York Gospels were probably created in Canterbury between 990 and 1020 AD and are kept in York Minster. The book …
Metrópoles
gazetaweb.comPages of the Gospel of York, which is over a thousand years old, were made with the skin of animals contaminated with the sheeppox virus
In old parchments, pathogens of animal diseases can be detected after hundreds of years. A research team discovered this and researched a virus.
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