Romanov Family Case Study

In 1991, scientists were granted permission to search for the missing bodies of the Romanov family, hoping to finally solve where their bodies mysteriously vanished to. Nine skeletons were found in a compiled burial site. Scientists identified age by looking at wisdom teeth and vertebrae, and gender by investigating pelvic bones. Once the bones were agreed to fit the Romanov family case, further DNA testing was conducted to determine the identities of who laid in this grave. By using mitochondrial DNA testing and a sample from Prince Philip, a relative of the Tsarina Alexandra, it was asserted that the skeletal remains of numbers 3, 4, 5, and 7 belonged to Tsarina Alexandra’s family. Furthermore the mtDNA testing and historical records concluded