moss wrote:
And talking of him, poor man seems to have been infested with round worm according to this news which has been rampaging through a boring news week...
Dr Jo Appleby, Lecturer in Human Bioarchaeology at the University of Leicester, UK, shed some light on the situation and explained that: “Despite Richard's noble background, it appears that his lifestyle did not completely protect him from intestinal parasite infection, which would have been very common at the time”.I've never read reports of this before in remains from the same period (not that I've ever gone out of my way to research it) if it was so common. A bit speculative possible?
