The detection of ancient microbial DNA offers a new approach for the study of infectious
diseases, their occurrence, frequency and host–pathogen interaction in historic times and …

ABSTRACT High quality Altai Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes are revealing which
regions of archaic hominin DNA have persisted in the modern human genome. A number of …

The molecular Egyptology field started in the mid-eighties with the first publication on the
ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis of an Egyptian mummy. Egypt has been a major interest for …

We describe the molecular identification of the M. tuberculosis complex DNA in bone tissue
samples from recent and historic populations. In a first set, archival paraffin material from …

Research in ancient medical history, Greek and Roman as well as Mesopotamian and
Egyptian, is usually done by philologically trained scholars; the ability to read texts in their …

Reports of bacterial pathogen DNA sequences obtained from archaeological bone
specimens raise the possibility of greatly improving our understanding of the history of …

The modern manifestation of mummy studies began to take shape in the 1970s and has
experienced significant growth during the last several decades, largely due to biomedical …

In this study, we describe an infant mummy from ancient Egypt that showed
macromorphologic signs of chronic anemia and vitamin C deficiency. From this infant, we …

3 essential information about responses to stressors within individuals or populations,
regardless of whether the stress could be identified. Goodman et al.(1984), Huss-Ashmore …

Archaeologists primarily address disease, illness, and health through biological studies of
human remains. These studies convey physical suffering in the past, but without broader …