Smallpox was one of the biggest killers in the history of humanity. This is the story of how we eradicated it, and what lessons this might hold for us now: | The Royal Society

Ramesses V The First Recorded Smallpox Case in History A deformed face… scars carved into the skin… as if the pain never died. This is no ordinary corpse… this is the face of a pharaoh. Ramesses V… a mummy that chills anyone who looks at it. Marks alive on a body dead for millennia. They said he died of smallpox… but how does a king protected by the greatest knowledge of his age die like this? And why is his skull opened and his body filled with secrets? Illness? Or concealment? Whispers in the