Tuberculosis in the Land of the Bible

The BBC is reporting that archaeologists have concluded that “the 9,000-year-old remains of a mother and her baby discovered off the coast of Israel provide the earliest concrete evidence of human TB.”

The remains of the woman and her baby were excavated from Alit-Yam, an ancient Neolithic village near Haifa.

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

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