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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris Twitterissä: "(3/6) Now scientists at @Stanford have extracted DNA from the mummy's bones and determined that Ata (as the mummy is known) was, in fact, human. https://t.co/cywOjLlfQg" / Twitter
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