Ancient Brewmasters Made Medicinal Beer

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In 1980, a scientist looking at bone fragments under an ultraviolet microscope noticed the bones were glowing green--a hallmark of the antibiotic tetracycline. The drug latches onto calcium and gets deposited in bone. Nothing unusual. Except these bones were from a Nubian mummy buried 1,600 years ago in Sudan--long before scientists discovered tetracycline, in 1948. [More] Sudan - Antibiotic - nubian - Ancient Egypt - Social Sciences

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