Max Planck – Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean

Contributing institution: The Max Planck – Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean

Corresponding author: Henry Gruber <hllgruber@gmail.com> 

This panel explores how new tools such as high throughput sequencing of the DNA of outbreak victims preserved in archaeological remains have facilitated the reconstruction of the genome of ancient pathogens.