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  • Skeleton Shatters Long-Held Theory

    12/11/2002 10:32:02 AM PST · by thesharkboy · 43 replies · 305+ views
    LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have found the remains of a man who died of tuberculosis more than 2,200 years ago, shattering theories the deadly disease was brought to England by the conquering armies of ancient Rome. The Iron Age skeleton was found in a pit in the tiny village of Tarrant Hinton in southwest England. His damaged spine led scientists to suspect he was a tuberculosis victim and DNA tests confirmed it. Carbon dating shows he lived between 400 and 230 BC, long before Julius Caesar launched Rome's first tentative invasion of Britain in 55 BC. "It's tremendously important,"...