DNA analysis links great-great-great-grandson to Franklin Expedition victim
It's the first time DNA has been used to identify remains from the doomed expedition.
When the doomed Franklin Expedition in Canada’s Arctic suffered its first three deaths, crew members buried the victims in marked graves with some apparent ceremony. But as conditions deteriorated during the expedition’s years in the ice, so did the treatment of the dead. Some starving expedition members cannibalized the bodies of their fallen comrades, and in the end, the dead lay where they fell, their bones resting in anonymity.
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