Is it possible to exhume human remains from 300 years ago and sequence their DNA?

[Daniel Waxman]

I was thinking about my personal top four smartest people of all time. In chronological order; Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday, and Albert Einstein. Unfortunately only one of them had children. Would it be possible to exhume the remains of these geniuses and sequence their DNA so that we could clone them?

[J.C.MacSwell]

Otzi the iceman, who lived around 5300 years ago, had his dna sequenced in 2013, after being found in a frozen state in 1991.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms1701

Cloning is obviously more problematic. 

Edited August 30, 2020 by J.C.MacSwell