Study Reveals Mercury-Poisoned Industrial Age Child - Archaeology Magazine

Study Reveals Mercury-Poisoned Industrial Age Child - Archaeology Magazine

Burial and bones of the child ROUEN, FRANCE—According to a Phys.org report, new analysis of the remains of a child who mysteriously died in mid-nineteenth century France revealed that he suffered from mercury poisoning. The skeleton of the three- to four-year-old toddler was unearthed at the site of Rue Thubeuf, where an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cemetery belonging to Saint-Gervais parish was located. The child’s bones were among 18 tha…