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最近,考古学家通过发掘一座古罗马建筑废墟,得出了一个前所未有的推论:疟疾蔓延可能是当时匈奴王艾提拉放弃入侵意大利的原因,也是罗马帝国衰亡的原因。 两年前,一个国际考古小组对罗马北70英里处的一个古罗马婴幼儿墓穴进行了发掘,发现的49具遗骸上明显有传染病的痕迹。一些直接和间接的证据表明,这一传染病就是疟疾。当时罗马周围多孳生蚊虫的沼泽地,人们把发热而死归因于夏季的蒸气,意大利语中“疟疾”一词来源于“瘴气”一词。陪葬物表明,尽管当时罗马人已信了基督教,却用了古代巫术方式安葬大批婴幼儿,可见当时疟
Recently, archaeologists reached an unprecedented corollary by excavating the ruins of an ancient Roman building: the spread of malaria may be attributed to the then invasion of Italy by the king Huntsman of the Huns and the reason for the fall of the Roman Empire. Two years ago, an international team of archaeologists unearthed an ancient Roman baby cat’s tomb 70 miles north of Rome and found traces of an infectious disease on 49 remains. Some direct and indirect evidence shows that the epidemic is malaria. At the time, there was a swamp of mosquitoes around Rome, where the heat was killed due to summer’s steam. The word “malaria” in Italian comes from the word “belching.” The funeral shows that although at that time the Romans had believed in Christianity, they used the ancient method of witchcraft to lay down a large number of infants and young children,