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#Ancient Irish royals practiced incest to keep bloodlines alive: study

#Ancient Irish royals practiced incest to keep bloodlines alive: study

June 17, 2020 | 4:47pm | Updated June 17, 2020 | 5:08pm

They kept it in the royal family.

Ancient Irish royals had sex with their siblings or parents to keep their elite bloodlines alive, according to a surprising new genetic discovery.

Researchers found evidence of first-degree incest in the DNA remains of a member of the ruling elite at the 5,000 year-old Newgrange tomb in Donore, Ireland, according to Trinity College Dublin.

“I’d never seen anything like it,” said lead author Lara Cassidy, whose findings were published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

“We all inherit two copies of the genome, one from our mother and one from our father; well, this individual’s copies were extremely similar, a tell-tale sign of close inbreeding. In fact, our analyses allowed us to confirm that his parents were first-degree relatives.”

The discovery suggests the man belonged to a royal class that practiced inbreeding in order to maintain dynastic bloodlines — much like pharaohs in ancient Egypt and Inca god-kings, the researchers said.

The researchers didn’t expect to uncover that incest was a practice in Neolithic Ireland, Dan Bradley, a professor of population genetics at Trinity, told CNN.

“We had no anticipation that it would be the case at Newgrange,” he said.

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