News Main Animals Archaeology Dinosaurs Earth History Human Animal Space Tech   Getty Images/DEA / S. VANNINI |   Wealthy, But Plagued by Disease A mummy found in Thebes, Egypt is shown. Scientists identified evidence of malaria in two mummies from the necropolis at Thebes, providing the earliest evidence of the disease. Earlier research found disease was rampant among the upper class Egyptians buried at the necropolis at Thebes and most people died between the ages of 20 and 30. | Video: Discovery Archaeology   « back to article

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