Funerary portraits from ancient Egypt are so, so revealing. Not least for the fact that most people on them died young by out standards.
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Sanitation, antibiotics, etc have beaten back germs so much that we now have a new set of bogeymen, diseases of age like cancer
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So much so that when there is a germ that might kill people en masse it makes headline news
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In Iceland, there are charts from before and after the fifties. They rose incredibly fast after the second world war. Never going back
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