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A male skeleton named TBH1 reveals he was killed by a quartz projectile strike about 12,000 years ago. Archaeologists ...

Not willing to give up, researchers turned to the objects Leonardo actually touched. Letters, sketches, and even the contested artwork Holy Child became potential windows into his genetic makeup.