article_snippet: Scientists have used the technique to reveal that infants and toddlers found in a cemetery within an ancient Roman villa in Italy had died of the disease.
article_snippet: Miss Inwood and her team tested the technique on the remains of 100 children buried in a cemetery within the ruins of Roman villa at Lugnano in Teverina, Italy.
article_snippet: The bodies, which dated from 550AD, had been buried with heavy roof tiles to weigh The bodies, which dated from 550AD down.
article_snippet: Miss Inwood said: 'Researchers from the University of Arizona had found burial practices that were throwbacks to pagan rituals. '
highlights_snippet: This allowed researchers to diagnose children that died 1,500 years ago .
  