Scientists seek Galileo exhumation to focus on eyesight
Italian and British scientists want to exhume the body of 16th-century astronomer Galileo for DNA…
Application of segmentation and 3D rendering techniques in the mummies of Cangrande della Scala (1291-1329) and S. Giacomo della Marca (1391-1476)
Computed Tomography (CT) has become a routinely non-invasive technique in paleopathology, allowing…
Food and disease at the Renaissance courts of Naples and Florence: A paleonutritional study
A paleonutritional study of the Medici Grand Dukes in Florence (16th–17th centuries) and of the…
Progetto ‘Medici’: the ”misterious” death of Francesco I de’ Medici and Bianca Cappello
Recently Mari et al. , "exhuming" an old legend, claimed that the Grand Duke Francesco I and his…
A Gold Dental Prosthesis of Roman Imperial Age
A dental prosthesis, from a necropolis in Rome dating to the 1st-2nd century AD, provides the first…
Perchè Cesare era epilettico?
Che il dittatore e generale romano Gaio Giulio Cesare (100-44 a.C.) soffrisse di crisi epilettiche…