Egypt
National Geographic
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies
Irish Times (Anthony King) The Lady Tentdinebu reclines in a corner room of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Her brilliantly coloured encasement tells us she once lived in ancient Egypt. When she died around 800 BC in Thebes, her body was preserved...
- Mummy Royalty Show Signs Of Clogged Arteries
Science (Heather Pringle) In the ancient tomb paintings of the Nile Valley, Egypt's nobility often appears lithe, beautiful, and, above all, healthy. But researchers have long doubted that life at the top of the social pyramid in ancient Egypt was...
- Conversations With Mummies
Rosalie David and Rick Archbold Harper Collins Publishers The Madison Press Limited New York 2000 ISBN: 0-688-17143-5 This books authors include the Eminent Dr. Rosalie David of the Manchester Museum and its Manchester Museum Mummy Project and Rick...
- More Diseased Mummies
This article is on the evolution of malaria starting with two Egyptian mummies and a pair of skeletons. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081029-mummies-disease-evolution.html...
- Mummy Malaria
Two ancient Egyptian mummies have revealed malaria present in their remains. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/23/mummies-malaria.html...
Egypt
More re malaria found in mummies
National Geographic
The oldest known cases of malaria have been discovered in two 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummies, scientists announced.
Researchers in Germany studied bone tissue samples from more than 90 mummies found in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, now called Luxor.
Two adult mummies from separate tombs had tissues containing ancient DNA from a parasite known to cause malaria, the researchers announced at a conference last week.
In addition, a separate team at University College London recently found that a pair of 9,000-year-old skeletons—a woman and a baby—discovered off the coast of Israel were infected with the oldest known cases of tuberculosis in modern humans.
Both finds contribute to the burgeoning field of paleopathology, or the study of ancient diseases.
Examining ancient DNA for clues about how and why disease-causing organisms evolve and mutate could have a tremendous impact on modern medicine.
"This will help us understand how these deadly diseases were able to infect humans," said Andreas Nerlich, a pathologist at the Academic Teaching Hospital München-Bogenhausen who found the mummies' malaria.
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies
Irish Times (Anthony King) The Lady Tentdinebu reclines in a corner room of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Her brilliantly coloured encasement tells us she once lived in ancient Egypt. When she died around 800 BC in Thebes, her body was preserved...
- Mummy Royalty Show Signs Of Clogged Arteries
Science (Heather Pringle) In the ancient tomb paintings of the Nile Valley, Egypt's nobility often appears lithe, beautiful, and, above all, healthy. But researchers have long doubted that life at the top of the social pyramid in ancient Egypt was...
- Conversations With Mummies
Rosalie David and Rick Archbold Harper Collins Publishers The Madison Press Limited New York 2000 ISBN: 0-688-17143-5 This books authors include the Eminent Dr. Rosalie David of the Manchester Museum and its Manchester Museum Mummy Project and Rick...
- More Diseased Mummies
This article is on the evolution of malaria starting with two Egyptian mummies and a pair of skeletons. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081029-mummies-disease-evolution.html...
- Mummy Malaria
Two ancient Egyptian mummies have revealed malaria present in their remains. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/23/mummies-malaria.html...