Boat burial reveals leprosy strain in fifth-century Germany
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Boat burial reveals leprosy strain in fifth-century Germany
Visigothic and Vandal forces marched into Italy and conquered Rome; the Huns spread fear and terror on their campaigns through Western Europe; the Franks expanded their domain southward—the fifth century was an era of profound, often violent upheavals in Europe, and at the same time one of great mobility. Researchers from the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB) at Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel and the Lower Saxony Institute f…
A boat grave on the North Sea coast of Lower Saxony has preserved unusual traces of late antiquity. In the bones and a tooth of a man from the 5th century there were remains of a leprosy pathogen line that had not been proven in Central Europe. Comparisons with old DNA also provide evidence of possible compounds of the buried in the Danube region. Kiel (Germany). The gravefield of Fallward [...] Die Beitrag Bootsgrab unveils rare leprosy pathoge…
DNA From 1,500-Year-Old Boat Burial Reveals Rare Leprosy Strain Never Before Found in Europe
A man buried inside a wooden boat more than 1,500 years ago has been found carrying a rare lineage of leprosy never previously identified in Central or Northern Europe. His grave, discovered beneath the marshlands of Germany’s North Sea coast, contained an intricately carved wooden throne, a decorated footstool and a military belt associated with […]
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