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....
- Mummies Examined For Rates Of Cancer
The Telegraph, UK (Richard Alleyne) Researchers looking at almost a thousand mummies from ancient Egypt and South America found only a handful suffered from cancer when now it accounts for nearly one in three deaths. The findings suggest that it is modern...
- 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...
- A Mummies Heart
Here is an article and short video on mummies in particular heart disease in mummies and analysis on the mummy of a 4 year old. http://www.fox19.com/Global/story.asp?S=11534250...
- Talking Mummies
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Egypt
Mummy DNA Reveals Birth of Ancient Scourge
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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 of Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and his colleagues tested the DNA of bone samples from 91 ancient Egyptian mummies and 70 from old Nubia--modern Sudan--to determine if they had suffered from leishmaniasis. In nine of the 70 Nubian mummies--taken from graves stretching as far back as A.D. 550--mitochondrial DNA of the parasite was discovered, proving the disease was endemic at least that far back. It likely has even more ancient roots; four of the Egyptian mummies carried the parasite's DNA, each dating from the Middle Kingdom period of 2050 to 1650 B.C. when trade ties with Nubia were strongest."
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- 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....
- Mummies Examined For Rates Of Cancer
The Telegraph, UK (Richard Alleyne) Researchers looking at almost a thousand mummies from ancient Egypt and South America found only a handful suffered from cancer when now it accounts for nearly one in three deaths. The findings suggest that it is modern...
- 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...
- A Mummies Heart
Here is an article and short video on mummies in particular heart disease in mummies and analysis on the mummy of a 4 year old. http://www.fox19.com/Global/story.asp?S=11534250...
- Talking Mummies
...