La paléopathologie : médecine légale appliquée à l’histoire et l’archéologie
Conference
15 November 2025
Saturday 15 November 2025 at 2.30 pm.
What does paleopathology teach us about the lives of our ancestors? This forensic medicine of ancient patients focuses on skeletons, mummies, relics... but also depictions of those who came before us.
Step by step, it becomes possible to reconstruct traumatic, infectious, and cancerous lesions, among others. The entire "clinical picture" or "medical record" of past populations is thus restored, whether it concerns the multitude of anonymous individuals who shaped history or the great names who made History...
