Paleopathology of the commoners at Tell Amarna, Egypt, Akhenaten's capital city.

A death from Langerhans cell histiocytosis and tuberculosis in 18th Century Hungary - what Paleopathology can tell us today

Otology and Paleopathology in Ancient Egypt

Like the classical study of medical papyri, paleopathology uncovers interesting facts concerning ear diseases in ancient Egypt. Three paleopathologic sources are available for the study of ancient otologic disorders: skulls, mummified heads, and middle ear ossicles, all of which will be reviewed in this article. At the beginning of the 20th century, the first studies of skulls with mastoiditis ...

Hair Styles and History

Readers of Mary Chubb's Nefertiti Lived Hereand they seem to be legion, judging by the number of enquiries addressed to the Museum's Information Desk-will remember that the "crowning moment" in the life of the excavators at Tell el Amarna during that season of 1931 was the discovery, in the ruins of a house in the northern suburbs, of the small but exquisite head shown on this page. After some ...

Osteoarchaeological Studies of Human Systemic Stress of Early Urbanization in Late Shang at Anyang, China.

Through the analysis of human skeletal remains and mortuary practice in Yinxu, this study investigates the impact of early urbanization on the commoners during the Late Shang dynasty (ca. 1250-1046 B.C.). A total of 347 individuals examined in this study represent non-elites who were recovered from two different burial contexts (formally buried in lineage cemeteries and randomly scattered in re...

Bioarcheology: Medicine, Biology, and Forensic Sciences

1New Mexico Health Enhancement and Marathon Clinics Research Foundation, Albuquerque, NM 87122-1424, USA 2Hard Tissue Research Unit, Department of Biomaterials & Biomimetics, New York University College of Dentistry, New York, NY 10010-4086, USA 3Department of Medical Molecular Genetics, Division of Human Genome and Genome Research, National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt 4Section of Paleopathol...