The international ancient Eygptian Mummy Tissue Bank at the Manchester Museum as a resource for the palaeoepidemiological study of schistosomiasis

World Archaeology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 223-240

  Lambert Zazulak, Patricia I ^a   Rutherford, Patricia ^a   David, A Rosalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Egypt; Manchester; Mummy; Palaeopathology; Schistosomiasis; Tissue bank

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 0142259780     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0043824032000111399     Document Type: Article

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