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Malaria at Decline of Rome Signaled in Child Cemetery This article was interesting in the sense it gave us another reason to believe that 1) malaria was a epidemic disease in the past, 2) why Attila the Hun did not continue his invasion of Italy and 3) the decline of the Great Roman Empire. To me, it was a horrifying and poignant experience to dig up a grave of infants (49 so far and the excavations are still continuing). Dr. Jose Ribeiro, an entomologist at Arizona concluded from the bones' analysis that the skeletons exhibited a condition known as porotic hyperostosis that were likely to be associated with an infectious disease such as malaria. This was not surprising since the marshes around Rome at that time were swampy and great breeding grounds for mosquitoes. In fact, the word "malaria" came from the Italian for "bad air". The multiple infant burials also revealed that the Romans practiced witchcraft and superstitious belief because buried in the graves were decapitated puppy skeletons, and raven's claws. Basically, there were two levels to the graves; the lower level generally had one skeleton but the higher level contained mass graves each with five or six infants indicating the death rates might have escalated to uncontrollable rates due to an epidemic. It was even rumored that Attila the Hun stopped short of conquering Rome in AD 452 because the then Pope Leo 1 told him of the unexplained deaths and sicknesses in the land. Iraq Temple May Hold Key to Medicine The discovery of the ancient Babylonian goddess of healing at Nippur, the ancient Mesopotamia religious center by the University of Chicago team was a big step towards the understanding of ancient medical practices. The site dated back to 1200 B.C. but there were layers of structures below the site that could indicate the site was previously occupied to the time as far back as the Sumerians which was some 5,000 years ago. The temple occupied an ar... Please login to view comments from other users.
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