Fossilized human blood cells from a Hellenistic settlement |
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Authors: | G J R Maat M S Baig |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923, 13110 Safat, Kuwait |
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Abstract: | The su of human soft tissue over long periods of time after death by mummification is common knowledge. Egyptian and pre-Columbian
mummies from America are the best-known examples of this process. The survival of human blood cells, the most fragile of all
soft tissue, over a period of about 2200 years by a process of fossilization is a phenomenon which had not been observed previously.
Fossilized blood cells were found during the paleopathological examination of skeletons of soldiers buried near a Hellenistic
fortress. The fortress had been built on an island in the Arab-Persian Gulf subsequent to the oriental expeditions of Alexander
the Great. |
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Keywords: | Fossilization Human blood cells Hellenistic Period Kuwait |
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