Mindy Weisberger (she/her) on Nostr: Bones unearthed in a Jamestown church recently revealed a long-buried scandal in the ...

Bones unearthed in a Jamestown church recently revealed a long-buried scandal in the family of the colony’s first governor.

My latest for CNN is a deep dive into a tangled web of ancient DNA, a 17th-century court case and genealogy records, with scientists uncovering a secret illegitimate birth.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/23/science/jamestown-colonial-governor-family-scandal-dna/index.html

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