Why did Beethoven go deaf? DNA testing solves 200 year old mystery
Boing Boing - 2024-05-15T07:33:30.000Z

I love when modern science solves ancient or historical mysteries. Just recently, AI was used to decipher charred scrolls from Herculaneum that had been considered unreadable for millenia. Cool. Now the mystery of Beethoven's famous health problems may be solved. Beethoven famously began losing his hearing in his 20's and had terrible lifelong gastrointestinal issues that have been the subject of speculation for the past 200+ years. — Read the rest

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