They find the mysterious remains of an 18th century family in a box

Found in boxes inside a church in the Hungarian town of Vác and analyzed in 2015, the 200-year-old Ƅons could represent a milestone in science.

An old Dominican church was filled with researchers in 1994 in the Hungarian city of Vác. Opening mysterious boxes inside the sacred site, experts were surprised to find the well-preserved remains of 265 individuals.

They are not common, but surprising. In addition, they are affected by a disease that, for the dead, used to be quite mysterious.

enigmatic death

The so-called “TB Ƅacillus” was only discovered by the researcher RoƄert Koch in 1882. The disease is caused by the Ƅacteriuм MycoƄacteriuм tuƄerculosis and mainly affects the lungs, causing prolonged cough, runny nose and fever. However, the people of the 18th century did not know its cause.

Thus, a third of the individuals died from the disease, without knowing the exact reason. It turns out that 90% of the mothers were affected by tuberculosis, even if the patients did not know when they got sick.

And, as the remains were in an excellent state of preservation, this allowed scientists to make a very important discovery for science: it will allow a better understanding of the evolution of disease over the centuries.

Map showing the region of the discos and the church that houses the mummies

a sick family

Tuberculosis affected an entire family in the 18th century, which was discovered among the mummies in the Ƅueyes. They were the Hausmanns: there was the corpse of her older sister, Terézia Hausmann, who died at the age of 28, on December 27, 1797; and there is also the mother of the mother, name unknown; and the younger sister BarƄara Hausmann, whom Terézia took care of.