There are no photographs of Hans Jonatan. This unidentified man may have been a former slave Universal History Archive/Getty Images
It’s not exactly bringing back the dead but it’s close. A person’s genome has been partially pieced together from fragments of his DNA found in hundreds of his modern-day descendants. It is the first time a dead person’s genome has been reconstructed without DNA extracted from their remains.
The person in question is , who is something of an icon in Iceland. His fame was bolstered by a biography, .…
