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The Iceman’s microbiome: unveiling millennia of microbial diversity and continuity [PDF]

Microbiome
Background The Iceman mummy, a 5300-year-old natural alpine glacier mummy, provides a unique opportunity to study ancient microbial ecosystems. However, disentangling the mummy’s endogenous microbiome from modern environmental contaminants introduced ...
Mohamed S. Sarhan, Marco Samadelli, Albert Zink, Frank Maixner   +3 more
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An ancient genome of Streptococcus pyogenes from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy [PDF]

Nature Communications
Streptococcus pyogenes, or Group A Streptococcus (GAS), is a human pathogen responsible for a range of diseases, from mild infections to severe illnesses.
Guido Valverde, Mohamed S. Sarhan, Ryan Cook, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, Albert Zink, Frank Maixner   +6 more
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New insights on Ötzi’s injuries from a clinical perspective [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The Tyrolean Iceman (Ötzi), discovered in the Tyrolean Alps, in 1991 is a remarkably well-preserved natural mummy estimated to be around 5300 years old, dating back to the Copper Age.
Jochen Weber, Joachim Wahl, Marco Samadelli, Albert Zink   +3 more
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Mummy Stories

Archaeologia Lituana, 2019
This article represents a summary of the author’s past 12 years of research on several mummy sets. As mummy studies expand as a sub-specialty of biological anthropology, it is important to highlight the significant contribution that the study of ...
Dario Piombino-Mascali
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Systematic assessment of bone and soft tissue tumors on whole-body CTs of 45 mummies from ancient Egypt [PDF]

Scientific Reports
There is a growing interest in the antiquity of cancer and ongoing discussion of the apparent scarcity of malignant tumors in ancient human remains, especially those of soft tissues. We systematically assessed bone and soft tissue tumors on 45 whole-body
Stephanie Panzer, Klaus Wörtler, Alice Paladin, Stephanie Zesch, Wilfried Rosendahl, Katherine D. van Schaik, M. Linda Sutherland, James D. Sutherland, Klaus Hergan, Randall C. Thompson, Albert R. Zink   +10 more
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From first to latest imaging technology: Revisiting the first mummy investigated with X-ray in 1896 by using dual-source computed tomography

European Journal of Radiology Open, 2016
Purpose: The aim of this study was to systematically reinvestigate the first human mummy that was ever analyzed with X-ray imaging in 1896, using dual-source computed tomography (DSCT) in order to compare the earliest and latest imaging technologies, to ...
Wilfried Rosendahl, Wulf Dieker, Stephanie Panzer   +2 more
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Mummy Blogs and Representations of Motherhood: “Bad Mummies” and Their Readers

Social Media and Society, 2017
Digital technologies have opened up new environments in which the experiences of motherhood and mothering are narrated and negotiated. Studies of “mummy blogs” have explored the ways in which blogs, as social media networks, can provide solace, support ...
Kate Orton-Johnson
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The mystery of the “air-dried chaplain” solved: the life and “afterlife” of an unusual human mummy from eighteenth century Austria [PDF]

Frontiers in Medicine
The multidisciplinary study of the well preserved cadaver of the so-called “air-dried chaplain” from the church crypt of St. Thomas am Blasenstein (Upper Austria) not only solved the “mystery” of the excellent preservation of the trunk of this unusual ...
Andreas G. Nerlich, Peter Hofer, Peter Hofer, Stephanie Panzer, Christine Lehn, Judith Wimmer, Oskar Nowak, Frank Musshoff, Oliver K. Peschel   +8 more
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Ancestry and kinship in a Late Antiquity-Early Middle Ages cemetery in the Eastern Italian Alps

iScience, 2023
Summary: In South Tyrol (Eastern Italian Alps), during Late Antiquity-Early Middle Ages, archeological records indicate cultural hybridization among alpine groups and peoples of various origin.
Valentina Coia, Alice Paladin, Stefania Zingale, Christina Wurst, Myriam Croze, Frank Maixner, Albert Zink   +6 more
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Metagenomic analysis of ancient dental calculus reveals unexplored diversity of oral archaeal Methanobrevibacter

Microbiome, 2021
Background Dental calculus (mineralised dental plaque) preserves many types of microfossils and biomolecules, including microbial and host DNA, and ancient calculus are thus an important source of information regarding our ancestral human oral microbiome.
Lena Granehäll, Kun D. Huang, Adrian Tett, Paolo Manghi, Alice Paladin, Niall O’Sullivan, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Nicola Segata, Albert Zink, Frank Maixner   +9 more
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