In an incredible discovery and achievement, Danish scientists have manged to extract information from a piece of birch pitch used as a kind of chewing gum, to determine the sex of the source, what she had last eaten, and the germs in her mouth. The scientists also believe that the lady might be dark haired, dark skinned and had blue eyes.

It is for the first time that an entire ancient human genome was extracted from something other than human bone. The research revealed that the lady was more closely related to hunter-gatherers from the mainland Europe than to those living in central Scandinavian during that time.

The sample found during an archaeological dig at Syltholm, in Southern Denmark.