A burial talking: it's science, not magic

This article is about a recently find, an england king from the XV century suffered a common infection of the medieval age and currently.

Between 1483 and 1485 in England was a King called Richard III, the most famous king in the medieval age (thanks to Shakespeare). The Archaeologists from University of Leicester found the human remains from Richard III last year under a parking site, that used to be part of the church in that city.

How did the researchers discover this? Well, the archaeologist from Cambridge University studied the soil extracted from the pelvis and cranium section.

What did they find? A lot of roundworm eggs in the pelvis soil. The roundworms are intestinal parasites that attack principally the lungs, but they grow up in the intestines. There is no reason to think that the eggs came from another stratus (superior stratus) because they didn't find eggs in the cranium soil.

Just like the most paleopathological researches, we can to relate the findings with the lifestyle, and Richard III probably eaten cooked meat (completely cooked), that because they didn't find another kind of parasites typical from edible animals, only the roundworms, in adition, his noble status didn't save him from this infection.

This article shows the amaizing results we can getting with paleopathological  studies, I mean, they were capable to discover these parasite eggs in the 500 years soil and relate it with what he eaten.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/04/richard-iii-roundworm-infection-scientists