{"id":8257,"date":"2022-12-11T09:37:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T08:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/11\/what-was-dracula-really-like-550-year-old-clue-to-life-of-vlad-the-impaler-emerges\/"},"modified":"2022-12-11T09:37:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T08:37:39","slug":"what-was-dracula-really-like-550-year-old-clue-to-life-of-vlad-the-impaler-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/11\/what-was-dracula-really-like-550-year-old-clue-to-life-of-vlad-the-impaler-emerges\/","title":{"rendered":"What was Dracula really like? 550-year-old clue to life of Vlad the Impaler emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are hoping \u2018historical biomolecules\u2019 on a 15th-century missive written by Vlad Dracula, the inspiration for Bram Stoker\u2019s vampire count, will reveal more about him <\/p>\n<p>On a dark and stormy night in May this year, exactly 125 years to the day that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/bram-stoker\" title=\"\">Bram Stoker<\/a> published the definitive vampire novel, two people pored over a document more than 500 years old in a room in Transylvania \u2013 signed by Dracula himself.<\/p>\n<p>Gleb and Svetlana Zilberstein\u2019s mission? To extract genetic material from the letters written by Vlad Dracula \u2013 the historical inspiration for Stoker\u2019s vampiric count \u2013 left there by his sweat, fingerprints and saliva.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/dec\/11\/dracula-vlad-the-impaler-letter-protein-clues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/247212eae79eed568c48f6121f5e48009741f082\/4_690_3536_2122\/master\/3536.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=58eaf8c637a41ccd02cb3e2d136d3fe3\" title=\"What was Dracula really like? 550-year-old clue to life of Vlad the Impaler emerges\" \/>Scientists are hoping \u2018historical biomolecules\u2019 on a 15th-century missive written by Vlad Dracula, the inspiration for Bram Stoker\u2019s vampire count, will reveal more about him<br \/>\nOn a dark and stormy night in May this year, exactly 125 years to the day that Bram Stoker published the definitive vampire novel, two people pored over a document more than 500 years old in a room in Transylvania \u2013 signed by Dracula himself.<br \/>\nGleb and Svetlana Zilberstein\u2019s mission? To extract genetic material from the letters written by Vlad Dracula \u2013 the historical inspiration for Stoker\u2019s vampiric count \u2013 left there by his sweat, fingerprints and saliva. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are hoping \u2018historical biomolecules\u2019 on a 15th-century missive written by Vlad Dracula, the inspiration for Bram Stoker\u2019s vampire count, will reveal more about him On a dark and stormy night in May this year, exactly 125 years to the day that Bram Stoker published the definitive vampire novel, two people pored over a document &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/11\/what-was-dracula-really-like-550-year-old-clue-to-life-of-vlad-the-impaler-emerges\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What was Dracula really like? 550-year-old clue to life of Vlad the Impaler emerges<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}