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Hey, welcome to Inquiring Minds.

I'm Andrey Viscontas.

This is a podcast that explores the space where science and society collide.

We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover,

and why it matters.

Joining me today for another up-to-date episode is Adam Bristol. Welcome back, Adam.

Thanks, Indra.

It's so great to be here again as your, I guess, semi-regular sidekick.

All right.

So what caught your eye this week in the news?

Well, there are two papers that caught my eye because in both cases, you'll see they're wildly different.

But in both cases, you'll see they're wildly different, but in both cases, they use

modern technology to illuminate history. And I found both of them to be fantastic examples of

where you can combine in an interdisciplinary fashion, Cunning Edge techniques, genetics, 3D printing, but then the subject

matter is looking back into the past, thousands of years into the past. And in some cases,

you can use some of the historical record and some of the literature of the time to then also be added to the data set to really

give you a fuller understanding of what was happening. And so I can't wait to tell you about

these two papers. They're really fascinating. All right. Well, let's start with the first one.

Okay, the first one, you may have heard it because after I read it, not surprisingly, it was

picked up by other major media outlets. But if you actually... After you read it. After I read it, not surprisingly, it was picked up by other major media outlets.

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