First paleoparasitological studies in Italy: helminthic parasites in mummies of different age.
There were no reports about parasites in mummies found in Italy, until few years ago. So far, the only described parasite in Italian mummies has been obtained…
DOPPIE ESEQUIE E SCOLATURA DEI CORPI nell’ITALIA MERIDIONALE D’eta’ MODERNA.
L’autorità religiosa, nell’opera di riforma delle pratiche tradizionali connesse ai riti di passaggio, intervenne principalmente, giova ripeterlo, sul concetto…
The problem of cancer in antiquity : brief review of 94 cases
The general opinion about the occurrence of malignant tumors in antiquity was that they were nonexistent or extremely rare. Paleooncologists still strongly…
Discovery of the First Hippocratic Cranial Trepanation from the Greek colony of Himera, Sicily (6th-5th century B.C.)
Himera was an important Greek colony on the northern coast of Sicily, founded in 648 B.C. and destroyed by the Carthaginians in 409 B.C. In Himera, three…
Tecnologia scientifica e divulgazione: l’esempio della paleopatologia
In questi ultimi anni i metodi di studio delle mummie si sono notevolmente perfezionati. Si è infatti scoperto che, dopo reidratazione, campioni di organi…