Previous research, based on marks on the mummies' bones left by TB infection, found that incidence of the disease in Vac surged from about 1760.
Samples from mummies in a Hungarian crypt have revealed that multiple tuberculosis strains derived from a single Roman ancestor that circulated in 18th-century Europe, scientists said Tuesday.
As shadow education secretary he has made a few gaffes that may have infuriated the very middle Englanders he seeks to woo, including referring to parents who like free schools as "yummy mummies" and questioning whether nuns make good teachers.
When he was making this claim I'm not sure that what he had in mind was the fecund yummy mummies of the royal borough of Kingston, but it seems appropriate anyhow, in the hour or so that follows, that his thoughts on the future feminisation of the planet should occasionally be threatened to be overwhelmed by women talking over voluble babies.
In 2003 a cache of stolen Egyptian treasures, including two mummies, was discovered in Geneva; in 2010 a Roman sarcophagus turned up there, perhaps pinched from Turkey.Under pressure to respond, the Swiss have tightened up their laws on money-laundering and the transfer of cultural property.
The British Museum's Egyptian mummies and the Amazonian tsantsas (shrunken heads) in Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum are mainstays of their collections.
Can detailed scrutiny of mummies, which is often destructive, be justified in the name of medical or historical research?
She explains how the discovery of mummies with Caucasian features in north-west China has pitted nationalists against western academics, and how efforts to film the retrieval of mummies from Andean mountain-tops caused a conflict between scientists and commercial interests.
Ms Murray visits some particularly ghoulish mummies, dressed but withered, in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo.
An excerpt from his best selling book of 1820 gives a flavour of the antiquarian practices of the time:Surrounded by bodies, by heaps of mummies in all directions; which previous to my being accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror.
"The last thing we need is more mummies," groans one archaeologist, faced with the recent discovery of a desert cemetery that Egyptian experts believe holds as many as 10,000 graves from the Greco-Roman period.
