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human
remains a sealed lead sarcophagus of
unknown
age finding bodies is not completely
unexpected burials in and around the
cathedral are part of its
history but a sarcophagus like this one
is very rare and immediately begs the
questions whose remains are these and
why are they
here this coffin is full of unexpected
discoveries his remains will be the
subject of a much more detailed
analysis by collecting enamel from the
teeth and a few grams of bone from a
fingertip it is possible to find Clues
to where he grew
up it's called isotopic
analysis our bodies are made from the
carbon and other chemical elements we
take in when we eat and
breathe among the atoms of those
elements there are variations called
Isotopes the Isotopes of strontium
oxygen and sulfur can point to the
geographical location where someone grew
up and nitrogen and carbon can help
determine if he ate mostly fish or meat
throughout his
life Anthropologist Rosen Coulter in
geochemistry re researcher cleria Jaan
processed the samples of enamel and Bone
collected from the
remains in order to extract the chemical
isotopes that will tell the story of
where he lived they first soak the
samples in an acid bath to break down
the
material the acid causes the bone
samples to become soft allowing
researchers to extract a protein
collagen once concentrated these
collagen molecules are placed in small
tin capsules to be analyzed by a mass
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spectrometer a few months later they
receive the first
results so this is a map showing the
probabilities for oxygen pronouncing
once again Paris here and in terms of
probability we can see that the higher
values are further east in France the
analysis says the mystery man grew up in
the east of
France this result matches with the
little information the archaeologist
gathered so far about Edward de la maren
who belonged to a noble family based in
burgundy