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A 3500-year-old leaf from a Pharaonic tomb reveals that New Kingdom Egyptians were cultivating domesticated watermelon
Susanne S. Renner, Oscar A. Pérez-Escobar, Martina V. Silber…·Guillaume Chomicki
The paper analyzes a 3500-year-old watermelon leaf from a Pharaonic tomb to determine the domestication origin of watermelon, finding it was cultivated by New Kingdom Egyptians.
DOI 10.1101/642785