[SunkenCiv]

Fresco of a horse from the ancient kingdom of Urartu in what is now Armenia and Turkey. The new DNA analyses included several individuals associated with the kingdom.

Image: EvgenyGenkin/CC BY-SA 3.0

[bunkerhill7]

Inner ear DNA from a henpecked Mycenaean warrior cannot be recovered. It quickly degrades after the honeymoon.

[libertylover]

Did they Ayla and Jonathon’s bones?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The discovery in 2015 that an inner-ear bone does an exceptional job of preserving DNA and the development of new sequencing and analytic techniques threw open the doors to studying large collections of ancient DNA from previously inaccessible environments.

I've got my reparations claim against Alexander the Great all prepared and ready to go.