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by Pulcinella 1697 days ago
Doing some quick searching[0], it seems that DNA has a half life of ~500 years, which is much longer than I originally would have guessed. Still, I imagine being in contact with metal might significantly speed up the degradation. Metal and metal ions tend to catalyze all sorts of reactions.

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11555