07.03.2025
Paleogenomics Laboratory; School of Arts and Cultural Heritage
The study was conducted by the European University's Laboratory of Palaeogenomics in collaboration with Genotek and is based on materials from the Hermitage's archaeological expeditions.
Russian paleogeneticists have sequenced the DNA of a noble warrior buried in the Chinge-Tei-I burial mound in Tuva, the legendary Scythian "Valley of the Kings." Preliminary results of the genomic study showed that on the maternal side, this man carried the same haplogroup as the so-called queen from the Arzhan-II burial mound. According to the autosomal genome, this man was similar to people of the same era, whose remains were found in Central Kazakhstan and Xinjiang.
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