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Guido Valverde

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Ancient DNA (unemployed) researcher. 🧬
Fiction writer in the Grant proposal genre. 📜
That's funny because it's true! 🤭

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Guido Valverde @guido-valverde.bsky.social · Jan 15

Bioarchäologie in Bolivien: Die Mumien aus dem Museo Nacional de Arqueología in La Paz 🇧🇴
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Bioarchäologie in Bolivien. Die Mumien aus dem Museo Nacional de Arqueología in La Paz

www.herder.de

Guido Valverde

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Mummies
From 19th November 2025 to 25th May 2026
www.mnhn.fr/en/expositio...

November 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Guido Valverde

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Human Evolutionary Genetics (3rd Edition)
By Mark Jobling, Brenna Henn, Edward Hollox, Toomas Kivisild, Luca Pagani, Chris Tyler-Smith
Copyright 2026
www.routledge.com/Human-Evolut...

November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM

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EL PAÍS

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Muere James Watson, descubridor de la estructura del ADN, a los 97 años
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Muere James Watson, descubridor de la estructura del ADN, a los 97 años

Se convirtió en uno de los científicos más celebrados de la ciencia del siglo XX al describir la famosa forma de doble hélice junto con Francis Crick

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November 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Guido Valverde

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Egypt is building a
$1-billion mega-museum
Will it bring Egyptology home?
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Egypt is building a $1-billion mega-museum. Will it bring Egyptology home?

For 100 years, Egypt’s scientists have watched as their nation’s story was largely told by institutions from Europe and the United States. Can a stunning new museum change that narrative?

www.nature.com

November 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM

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Die Presse

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Lange wurde am „Grand Egyptian Museum“ an den Pyramiden in Ägypten gebaut, nun ist es endlich fertig. Prunkstück der Sammlung: der Grabschatz des Pharaos Tutanchamun.

Nach 20 Jahren Bauzeit wird Großes Ägyptisches Museum endlich eröffnet

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November 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM

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Economia X Finanza

@economiaxfinanza.bsky.social

Il Grand Egyptian Museum apre al mondo: Dopo un’attesa di vent’anni nasce il più grande museo della civiltà egizia

Il Grand Egyptian Museum apre al mondo: Dopo un'attesa di vent’anni nasce il più grande museo della civiltà egizia - Economia X Finanza

Il Grand Egyptian Museum, il più grande museo dedicato ai faraoni, apre vicino alle piramidi di Giza con migliaia di reperti unici.

economiaxfinanza.com

November 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM

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Sky News

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Billion-dollar Grand Egyptian Museum opens, displaying full Tutankhamun collection for first time

A trove of golden treasures and antiquities detailing life in ancient Egypt will go on public display at Cairo's record-breaking new museum.

news.sky.com

November 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM

Guido Valverde

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The Oxford Handbook of South American Archaeology
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October 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM

Guido Valverde

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Faces of Four Mummified Andean People Reconstructed
archaeology.org/news/2025/10...

News - Faces of Four Mummified Andean People Reconstructed - Archaeology Magazine

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND—Live Science reports that researchers from the Face Lab at Liverpool John Moores University […]

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October 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM

Guido Valverde

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Why scientists should take more coffee breaks
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Why scientists should take more coffee breaks

Grad students should make time for casual conversations with peers, this Ph.D. student writes

www.science.org

October 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM

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The Associated Press

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Scientists have discovered what's thought to be the oldest mummies in the world in southeastern Asia. Mummification prevents decay by preserving dead bodies.

The oldest mummies in the world may hail from southeastern Asia and date back 12,000 years

Scientists have discovered what's thought to be the oldest mummies in the world in southeastern Asia. Mummification prevents decay by preserving dead bodies.

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September 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM

Guido Valverde

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Giving a talk about Bolivian mummies 🇧🇴
They've been waiting for centuries to be listened to
#World #Mummy #Congress #Peru 2025

August 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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Dr. Jessica Liu

@jessiliu.bsky.social

Explore the Bolivian mummy collection on sketchfab: sketchfab.com/munarq

August 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM

Guido Valverde

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11° Congreso Mundial de Estudios sobre Momias - Cusco 2025
#Congreso #Mundial #Momias #Peru #Cusco
xi-wcmscusco2025.pucp.edu.pe

XI Congreso Mundial de Estudios sobre Momias | PUCP

Join us at the XI World Congress on Mummy Studies, a premier event showcasing groundbreaking research and discussions on ancient mummies and their significance.

xi-wcmscusco2025.pucp.edu.pe

August 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM

Guido Valverde

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World Mummy Studies Society
International collection of mummy scientists
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World Mummy Studies

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August 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM

Guido Valverde

@guido-valverde.bsky.social

Cusco #Peru recibirá el #Congreso #Mundial de Estudios sobre #Momias 2025
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Cusco recibirá el Congreso Mundial de Estudios sobre Momias

Revista Cusco Social

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August 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM

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Reuters

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Evolutionary origins of the potato revealed - and a tomato was involved reut.rs/45fQ4sG

Evolutionary origins of the potato revealed - and a tomato was involved

The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America before spreading globally from the 16th century. But despite its importance to humankind, the evolutionary origins of the potato have remained puzzling - until now.

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August 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM

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Science Magazine

@science.org

“Tomato is the mother of potato.” scim.ag/4mheKrH

Thank ketchup for your French fries

Interbreeding with tomatoes 9 million years ago gave potatoes the genes to develop tubers

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July 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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Chiara Barbieri

@chiarabarbieri.bsky.social

New volume on the interface between languages, human history, anthropology, archaeology and (a bit of) genetics, curated by M. Robbeets and M. Hudson. A very rich table of content for everyone interested in these multidisciplinary studies of the human past. I contributed two chapters:

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language

Abstract. Linguists have long described their findings in an archaeological context, while archaeologists have been interested in what language can tell th

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July 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM

Guido Valverde

@guido-valverde.bsky.social

LA PAZ, BOLIVIA 🏔️
Foto 📷 : Bolivia en imágenes

July 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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New Scientist

@newscientist.com

Over tens of thousands of years, waves of Homo sapiens set out across Europe and Asia, only for their societies and cultures to mysteriously vanish. At last, ancient DNA is revealing why

The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn’t conquer the world

www.newscientist.com

July 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM

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Evolution Soup

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Ötzi the Iceman and his neighbors had totally different ancestries, ancient DNA study finds #evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #DNA #science #fossils
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