article_snippet.sent: Researchers have isolated bacterial DNA of several strains of the disease from the bodies of mummies found in the crypt of a church in the city of Vác in Hungary.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers found 14 different strains of TB bacteria that had infected eight of the bodies in the tomb and traced them all back to a single source.
article_snippet.sent: Mummified remains of 28-year-old Terézia Hausmann (above) found in the 18th century crypt of the Dominican church in Vác, Hungary, were among those found to have been infected with tuberculosis by the researchers .
article_snippet.sent: The researchers found that eight of the 26 bodies The researchers examined showed signs that The researchers had died of tuberculosis, five of whom had suffered from multiple strains.
article_snippet.sent: The findings also suggest that at the time when The mummies died, TB was already raging in Europe and killing large numbers of people even before urbanisation and crowded housing created devastating epidemics.
highlights_snippet.sent: Geneticists led by scientists at the University of Warwick studied samples from 26 of More than 200 mummified bodies and found that eight of More than 200 mummified bodies had died of tuberculosis .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Geneticists led by scientists at the University of Warwick discovered DNA of 14 different strains of TB bacteria  in the mummies .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Analysis showed 14 different strains of TB bacteria  in the mummies descended from a single strain that begun causing infections during the late Roman empire between 396CE-470CE .