WASHINGTON — When Spanish conquistadors arrived in the New World about five centuries ago, they brought muskets, cannons, armor, horses and attack dogs as they set about colonizing the Americas.
Smallpox DNA recovered from mummies
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The Camarones Pacific coast in northern Chile is seen in November 2018 near the Inca archaeological site where two human mummies dating to the early Spanish colonial period were found with evidence of smallpox infection.
An ancient Inca mummy is displayed July 15, 2025, at a museum in Cusco, Peru.
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