Tuberculosis of another type, that of the lungs, was discovered in a mother and child found in 30 feet of water off the Mediterranean Sea shore of Haifa, Israel, in 2008.Īmong other disease discoveries in ancient Egyptian remains, National Geographic reports, are DNA of parasites that cause malaria in tissue from two 3,500-year-old mummies bone lesions typical of metastatic prostate cancer in a 2,250-year-old mummy a man of 2,900 years ago who had a painful bone disease called Hand-Schuller-Christian disease and evidence of gastrointestinal disease from drinking polluted Nile River water in the remains of 200 people in a cemetery near Aswan. If this diagnosis is correct, this will be the oldest example of kidney tuberculosis, and the first one recorded in an intentionally mummified ancient Egyptian.” Its anatomical location, morphologic and structural analysis support a diagnosis of end-stage renal tuberculosis. “The computed tomography scans of this mummy showed a small dense bean-shaped structure at the left lumbar region. “Irtieru is a male mummy enclosed in cartonnage, dating to the Third Intermediate Period in the Egyptian collection of the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia in Lisbon,” the researchers wrote in their abstract. Now, for the first time ever, researchers using CT scans have detected a diseased kidney in an ancient Egyptian mummy.Ī kidney normally would decay long before the 2,800 years that have elapsed since the man named Irtieru was embalmed, but it appears he had a kidney disease called renal tuberculosis that calcified (hardened) the organ.
Over the years, scientists have found evidence of cancers, heart disease, starvation, ulcers, smallpox, tuberculosis and other infections in ancient remains from all over the world.
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