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DNA identifies four more crew members of doomed Franklin expedition

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DNA identifies four more crew members of doomed Franklin expedition
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Archaeologists continue to use DNA analysis to identify the recovered remains of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin's 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. They can now add four more names to the list of previously identified crew members. The findings were reported in two papers, one published in the Journal of Archaeological Science and the other in the Polar Record.
As we've reported previously, Franklin’s two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, bec

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