1st Dynasty King Menes from Narmer\'s tablet discovered by James Quibell in Hierakonpolis in 1897.
Fayum Chief, according to Petrie, The Making of Egypt, 1939, p. 87
Libya. The appearance of the Fayum is dated at 5000 B.C., and their disappearance around 4000 B.C. The skulls of these people, are all dolichocephalic and Mediterranean. There is no trace of negroid influence, and the skulls are said to be larger than those of predynastic Egyptians.

Perhaps the first written record of a virus infection consists of a heiroglyph from Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt, drawn in approximately 3700BC, which depicts a temple priest called Ruma showing typical clinical signs of paralytic poliomyelitis.

The Pharaoh Siptah ruled Egypt from 1200-1193 BC when he died suddenly at the age of about 20. His mummified body laid undisturbed in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings until 1905 when the tomb was excavated. The mummy shows that his left leg was withered and his foot was rigidly extended like a horse\'s hoof - classic paralytic poliomyelitis.

The Pharoh Ramses V, who died in 1196BC, is believed to have succumbed to smallpox - compare the pustular lesions on the face of the mummy & those of more recent patients.

Pott disease is a presentation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that affects the spine, a kind of tuberculous arthritis of the intervertebral joints. It is named after Percivall Pott (1714-1788), a London surgeon. Scientifically, it is called tuberculous spondylitis and it is most commonly localized in the thoracic portion of the spine.

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