Face of a Pharoah - Smallpox Through Time - 1050BC-1980 on Timelines.tv

In 1910, egyptologists discovered smallpox scars on the face of the mummy of Ramses V - the earliest evidence of smallpox in human history. Andrew explains the origins of the disease, and traces its spread into the modern era.

Follow the rest of this documentary sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, "Smallpox through Time" tells the story of a killer disease from its origins in the ancient world to its eradication in the 1970s.

The next module - Arsenic & Old Lace - can be viewed at http://timelines.tv/index.php?t=3&e=2

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Education

Tags:

• smallpox
• edward jenner
• medicine through time
• wellcome trust
• WHO
• global eradication
• disease
• elizabethan medicine
• variola virus
• immunology
• vaccination
• inoculation
• andrew chater
• paul trainor
• jon adams