Scientist discovered traces of Tuberculosis(TB) from a 500,000 years old Homo Erectus fossil. This findings suggest that TB may have infected human ancestors much earlier than previously thought. The fossil was discovered in a block of travertine rock mined from a quarry near Kocabas in western Turkey. Scientist believed that this belongs to a male between 15 and 40 years of age.
“There were widespread little lesions on the inside of the skull,” said John Kappelman, an anthropologist at the University of Texas, Austin.
“Those lesions are distinctive of a specific kind of tuberculosis that infects the meninges, or membranes that surround the brain,” he added.
