Reconstructing the life of an unknown (ca. 500 years-old South American Inca) mummy--multidisciplinary study of a Peruvian Inca mummy suggests severe Chagas disease and ritual homicide.

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Published in PLoS One on February 26, 2014

Authors

Stephanie Panzer1, Oliver Peschel2, Brigitte Haas-Gebhard3, Beatrice E Bachmeier4, Carsten M Pusch5, Andreas G Nerlich6

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Radiology, Trauma Center Murnau, Murnau, Germany and Biomechanics Laboratory, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg and Trauma Center Murnau, Murnau, Germany.
2: Institute of Legal Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
3: Bavarian State Archaeological Collection and Museum, Munich, Germany.
4: Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany.
5: Institute of Anthropology and Human Genetics, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany.
6: Institute of Pathology, Academic Clinic München-Bogenhausen, Munich, Germany.

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