Egypt
Past Horizons
With photos and illustrations.
- Medicinal Beer In Nubia
Santa Cruz Sentinel I need a beer. It's a phrase uttered by many contemporary workers after a long day at the office, but new research shows that ancient cultures were probably using the alcoholic beverage to treat much more than the stress of everyday...
- In The Lab: Results From Mummy Scans From Cairo Museum
Los Angeles Times (Thomas H. Maugh II) With photos. CT scans of Egyptian mummies, some as much as 3,500 years old, shows evidence of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, which is normally thought of as a disease caused by modern lifestyles, researchers...
- Weekly Workshops At The Rosicrucian Museum
The Scribe blog This new addition to our weekend workshop series is all about mummies! The workshop was created to take full advantage of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum’s four resident human mummies, who provide us with a wealth of information about...
- Anthropologist Receives Top Award
Emory Wheel George Armelagos, professor and chair of anthropology at Emory, won the 2008 Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology, the highest honor given by the American Anthropological Association (AAA). . . Armelagos has been involved...
- Mummy Dna Reveals Birth Of Ancient Scourge
http://tinyurl.com/rbllf (sciam.com)An article about analysis of mummies to determine the approximate age of the disease leishmaniasis which is caused by microscopic parasites, is transmitted by sand flies and results in painful skin sores: "Albert Zink...
Egypt
Mummies tell history of a ‘modern’ plague
Past Horizons
With photos and illustrations.
Mummies from along the Nile are revealing how age-old irrigation techniques may have boosted the plague of schistosomiasis, a water-borne parasitic disease that infects an estimated 200 million people today.
An analysis of the mummies from Nubia, a former kingdom that was located in present-day Sudan, provides details for the first time about the prevalence of the disease across populations in ancient times, and how human alteration of the environment during that era may have contributed to its spread.
The American Journal of Physical Anthropology is publishing the study, led by Emory graduate student Amber Campbell Hibbs, who recently received her PhD in anthropology.
About 25 percent of mummies in the study dated to about 1,500 years ago were found to have Schistosoma mansoni, a species of schistosomiasis associated with more modern-day irrigation techniques.
- Medicinal Beer In Nubia
Santa Cruz Sentinel I need a beer. It's a phrase uttered by many contemporary workers after a long day at the office, but new research shows that ancient cultures were probably using the alcoholic beverage to treat much more than the stress of everyday...
- In The Lab: Results From Mummy Scans From Cairo Museum
Los Angeles Times (Thomas H. Maugh II) With photos. CT scans of Egyptian mummies, some as much as 3,500 years old, shows evidence of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, which is normally thought of as a disease caused by modern lifestyles, researchers...
- Weekly Workshops At The Rosicrucian Museum
The Scribe blog This new addition to our weekend workshop series is all about mummies! The workshop was created to take full advantage of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum’s four resident human mummies, who provide us with a wealth of information about...
- Anthropologist Receives Top Award
Emory Wheel George Armelagos, professor and chair of anthropology at Emory, won the 2008 Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology, the highest honor given by the American Anthropological Association (AAA). . . Armelagos has been involved...
- Mummy Dna Reveals Birth Of Ancient Scourge
http://tinyurl.com/rbllf (sciam.com)An article about analysis of mummies to determine the approximate age of the disease leishmaniasis which is caused by microscopic parasites, is transmitted by sand flies and results in painful skin sores: "Albert Zink...