Touraj Daryaee (ed.). Cyrus the Great. An Ancient Iranian King

Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus: An ancient Iranian Immunologist King

Mummies, disease and ancient cultures, 2nd ed

The first edition of Mummies, disease and ancient cultures was reviewed in Medical History in 1981 by my colleague Dr Simon Hillson, who called it "a fascinating book". This second edition is fundamentally revised and enlarged (by 62 pages), and brings in a new co-editor, in the person of the paleopathologist Theodore Reyman, the original joint-editor Aidan Cockburn having died as long ago as 1...

King Henry VIII's other great matter.

200 J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2012;38:200–201. doi:10.1136/jfprhc-2012-100399 First marriage The divorce of King Henry VIII from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, has, over the centuries, produced a positive paper storm of academic books and popular works, examination papers and essays. As a subject it has also inspired a number of films and TV documentaries. King Henry posed an argumen...

The last illness of Herod the Great, king of Judaea.

NTRODUCTION FOR most of us living in the second half of the twentieth century, Herod the Great remains a shadowy figure who is recalled only at Christmas when we read of his massacre of the innocents (Matt. 2:16). He is even confused with Herod Agrippa who persecuted the Church and also died a miserable death (Acts 12:23). Our ancestors, however, were better informed since they often kept, on t...

Isolation and molecular identification of deteriorating fungi from Cyrus the Great tomb stones

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Biodeterioration is an irreversible damage that is caused by colonization of microorganisms on the surface of different materials. Among all microorganisms, fungi play an important role in deterioration of materials. Fungi can colonize on stone surfaces and by secreting different enzymes, organic and inorganic acids and pigments, can cause bio-weathering and changing n...