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Tuberculosis has an alternative metabolism that allows it to survive even encased in an oxygen -free environment that the immune system puts around it, called granulomas. There are 2000y old mummies with granulomas in their lungs that were found to still contain live tuberculosis.

[pyuser583]

Are you certain about the 2000 year dating?

I curious because the mummification process changed drastically over time, and during the early Roman period was much less elaborate than 1000 years earlier.