TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in ...
and a 3,500-year-old medical text described a bubo filled with petrified pus, hinting at the plague's spread by rodents on boats. But DNA evidence like that found in the mummy was needed to ...
is now confirmed to be the oldest known cheese sample ever found. A study published in the journal Cell details the DNA analysis of cheese found around a mummy's neck, confirming it as kefir ...
Named "Juanita," she is the best-preserved Incan mummy ever discovered ... 3300 BC—making him the oldest well-preserved mummy in the world. In 1972, hunters found the best preserved human ...
radiocarbon dating determined that the "Iceman" died sometime between 3350 and 3300 B.C.—making him the oldest well-preserved mummy in the world. In 1972, hunters found some of the best ever ...
One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy ... British archeologists found evidence of the disease in ...
Archaeology students discovered the mummy during a dig in Lima ... rubbish dump in the capital Lima have found a mummy they think is around 3,000 years old. Students from San Marcos University ...
After analysing ancient cheese found alongside mummies in China dating from ... ‘This is the oldest known cheese sample ever discovered in the world. ‘Food items like cheese are extremely ...
Although the bubonic plague is most often associated with its deadly impact on 14th century Europe, traces of Yersinia pestis have also been found ... year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy.
In 1991, a body was found frozen in the ice high in the Alps. It was the oldest naturally preserved mummy ever found and created a media sensation. The corpse was even given a name: Oetzi ...