European Found in Ancient Chinese Tomb

DNA evidence has revealed that the human remains found in a 6th-century tomb in Taiyuan, central China, belong to a European adult male. This is the farthest east that ancient European DNA evidence has been tracked. Find out more in the feature by Stefan Lovgren at National Geographic News.

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