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Note that not all pock-like marks in mummies prove to be smallpox. Arthur C. Aufderheide’s new book, The Scientific Study of Mummies (Cambridge University Press 2003, p. 498), reports that a histological analysis of cells from a mummy of the Twentieth Dynasty long-suspected to be smallpox, proved, instead, to be a “bacterial lesion”. ................
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