This Gaurdian article discusses new efforts at trying to identify people found in the Mycenean graves of ancient Greece. Heinrich Schliemann, who found them more than a century ago, decided he had seen the face of Agamemnon himself, but it eventually turned out the graves were perhaps five hundred years too old. It's hoped that by using new DNA technology on the physical remains it can be determined if these people were related, or represented soldiers, or perhaps something else.

I remember going over all this stuff years ago back in college. The classics course I was taking was evenly split between anthropology majors and classics majors (no, none of us were interested in getting a real job). All the material we were using was based exclusively on historical documents and archeological findings. All us anth majors wanted to know about the physical remains, and we were staggered to find that nobody had ever done anything with them. It would seem that, fifteen years later, someone finally is.