Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Traces of a Smallpox Epidemic in the Family of Ramesses V of the Egyptian 20th Dynasty
AU  - Strouhal E
Y1  - 1996
VL  - 34
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 315
EP  - 319
KW  - Smallpox
KW  - Mummy of Ramesses V
KW  - Embalming methods
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Palaeopathology
KW  - Electron microscopy
KW  - Immunology
KW  - Turin Papyrus No. 1923
KW  - Epidemic
KW  - Quarantine
N2  - 
N2  - The evidence for smallpox in the mummy of Ramesses V proved by electron microscopy and immunology together with the quick, careless and poor mummification have been correlated to the historical testimony of Turin Papyrus No. 1923. This reveals the delay of the king's burial caused by cutting a new tomb for him and others for members of his family who also died unexpectedly proving an epidemic which spread to the palace from the commoners. These and several other precautions used suggest the beginning of quarantine as the result of anticipation of the infectious character of the epidemic.
ER  -