What 15 Skeletons from a 17th-Century Warship Reveal About Modern Forensic DNA
The warship Vasa sank in Stockholm harbor in 1628, traveling just over 1,300 meters before it went down. When salvage crews raised it in 1961, they recovered skeletal remains along with it — clothing, artifacts, and bones that had spent 333 years submerged, then been excavated, reburied in soil, and in some cases stored in […]