Viking skulls inspected with CT scans reveal severe morbidity

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Vikings Were Riddled With Facial Diseases

And their attempts at dentistry sound horrifying.

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Viking skulls reveal severe morbidity

Sweden's Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, osteoarthritis, and much more. This is shown in a study in which Viking skulls were examined using modern X-ray techniques.

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Viking mouths were a painful mess

Viking life wasn’t just tough, it was often chronically painful. For proof, all you need to do is examine their skulls. That’s what researchers at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg did with the remains of 15 individuals recovered from an archeological site decades ago in Västergötland County’s Skara municipality. In 2005, an excavation near the town’s historic Varnhem Abbey yielded a trove of early Christian Viking remains, including skeletal an…

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Do you think of Vikings as strong men and beautiful women? Then you are wrong. New research from the University of Gothenburg shows that the Viking population had a variety of health problems.

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Viking skulls inspected with CT scans reveal severe morbidity

Sweden's Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, osteoarthritis, and much more. This is shown in a study from the University of Gothenburg in which Viking skulls were examined using modern X-ray techniques.

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CT scans of Viking-age skulls reveal widespread disease

A new study by scientists at the University of Gothenburg has shed light on the health of Viking-age people in Sweden, showing they suffered from many infections and skeletal diseases. The research, which was published in the British Dental Journal Open, used advanced CT scans to analyze the skulls of 15 Viking-era individuals. It found evidence of chronic ailments that would have made their lives much harder. Skull mounted in the CT-scanner. Cr…