molecular analyses of funeral accessories from XVII century

By utilization of high-throughput sequencing (MinION platform) deteriorating microbial communities colonizing various buried objects and funeral textile items found on the body burried under the presbytery of the basilica of St. Giles in Bardejov (Slovakia)can be identified. Several buried items, mainly diverse textile objects found on the body should be restored in order to set up a permanent exibition of the finds discovered during the various archaeological studies. The surfaces of buried items seemed to have biodeterioration phenomena and this project was focused on the idetification and characterization of bideteriogens by high-throughput sequencing.