Well, lets hope whatever they died of isn’t being spread now that they’ve been dug up.
Well, lets hope whatever they died of isn’t being spread now that they’ve been dug up.
I thought of that, too.
There were some nasty maladies in those days.
If it were typhus, it would be worth worrying about. That can persist in the soil for thousands of years, supposedly.
Yersinia pestis
http://www.cdc.gov/plague/
i seem to recall they were digging up people buried in permafrost who died from the plague for that reason, to get an active copy of the disease to provide a cure on the off chance it reappears...
also they have found people who were immune to it and , so the story goes, their offspring today are actually immune to aids also. saw an interview with a guy who lived through the aids rise in San Fran. everyone he knew died of aids...everyone. turned out his ancestors were from a village in England somewhere that the plague just didnt infect/effect.
kind of amazing when you think of it.