Veena Mushrif-Tripathy says the team now plans to examine additional skeletons from Indus sites like Harappa, Farmana and Kalibangan along with conducting a DNA analysis of the Balathal skeleton to ascertain whether leprosy existed in these areas also. “We still have to determine its prevalence. One thing is for sure—the lepers were treated very badly in that era,” she says. Some things never change, even after 4,000 years.
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