Study: Beethoven Hair Auctioned for Thousands May Not All Be His
Hair samples believed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven that were auctioned for high prices might not actually be his.
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Hair samples believed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven that were auctioned for high prices might not actually be his.
He would pull out the drawer holding a lock of hair and tell visitors, “This is real” and that it once was on the head of the greatest composer who ever lived. But was it?
Hair samples believed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven that were auctioned for high prices might not actually be his.
Hair samples believed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven that were auctioned for high prices might not actually be his.
Beethoven’s genome has been sequenced for the first time by an international team of scientists using five genetically matching locks of his hair.