Sunday, February 15, 2015

Ancient Graveyard in Italy Researched for the Outset of Cholera

The abandoned Badia Pozzeveri church and the ancient graveyard in the Tuscany region of Italy have gained the attention of a team of archaeologists and other researchers. The researchers are exhuming the graveyard hoping that the graveyard can yield clues about the deadly bacterium that causes cholera. The site contains victims of the cholera epidemic that swept the world in the 1850s, said Clark Spencer Larsen, professor of anthropology at The Ohio State University ...

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