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SUBMITTER: Kurushima JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3426309 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kurushima Jennifer D JD Ikram Salima S Knudsen Joan J Bleiberg Edward E Grahn Robert A RA Lyons Leslie A LA
Journal of archaeological science 20120519 10
The ancient Egyptians mummified an abundance of cats during the Late Period (664 - 332 BC). The overlapping morphology and sizes of developing wildcats and domestic cats confounds the identity of mummified cat species. Genetic analyses should support mummy identification and was conducted on two long bones and a mandible of three cats that were mummified by the ancient Egyptians. The mummy DNA was extracted in a dedicated ancient DNA laboratory at the University of California - Davis, then direc ...[more]