That would be a particularly nasty little surprise for the tomb robbers, wouldn’t it? Interesting that they knew that lime would act as a disinfectant without knowing why. Some of the symptoms actually sound a little like cholera but what the heck do I know?
Heh, that would fix ‘em, eh? The site had been used for formal burials for a long while before the epidemic, but after it became a disposal area for the victims, it was never again used for formal burials, and not rediscovered until tomb robbers found the site a century or so ago.