<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anonymous</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The nit-picking pharoahs</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New Scientist</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pediculosis</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1990</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1990</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12617181-900-the-nit-picking-pharaohs/</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">126</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">24</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;div class=&quot;article-content&quot;&gt;
	&lt;p&gt;HIS photograph represents the first material rather than anecdotal evidence that head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) infested the hair of the ancient Egyptians. The picture, taken with a scanning electron microscope by Ian Miller of the Medical School at the University of Manchester, shows the most ancient sample of head lice ever recorded.&lt;/p&gt;
	&lt;p&gt;Joann Fletcher of the Manchester Museum dates the sample, from a mummified Egyptian skull of the early dynastic period, at about 3000 BC. Fletcher, who is studying ancient Egyptian hairstyles and wigs, says that the sample predates the world&amp;rsquo;s oldest confirmed infestation (on an American Indian) by 1000 years.&lt;/p&gt;
	&lt;p&gt;The slide shows a secondary infestation &amp;ndash; two mites in the hatched case of a head-louse egg (nit). Fletcher says that further examination of the&lt;br /&gt;
		ancient head lice can tell us much more about the general state of health and hygiene of the Egyptians. She says that head lice prefer clean hair&lt;br /&gt;
		and feed several times a day on the blood of a host. They glue their eggs to the hair shaft near the scalp. They hatch after about 7 to 10 days.&lt;/p&gt;
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