Archaeologists Unearth 500-Year-Old Remains Of Inca Toddlers With Smallpox
The skeletons showed signs of osteomyelitis variolosa, a bone infection that is triggered by the smallpox virus, which was brought to the region by Spanish colonizers. Gabriel Prieto / Huanchaco Archaeological ProgramArchaeologists disinter remains from the former colonial burial ground in Huanchaco , Peru . Researchers read human remains at a 16th - century cemetery in Huanchaco , Peru , recently trip upon the skeletons of two Inca toddlers who seemingly fail from variola ....