Syphilis-ridden 18th century mummy dug up Swiss church is relative of Boris Johnson

[super jumbe]

A syphilis-ridden 18th century mummy dug up from a Swiss church is the great-great-great-great-great- great-great grandmother of Boris Johnson, it has emerged.

The body was uncovered in 1975 during renovations on Basel’s Barfusser Church, but her identity has remained a mystery for more than 40 years.

Known as ‘Switzerland’s most famous mummy’, the woman was buried in front of the altar, and found wearing expensive clothes, with no signs of malnutrition, suggesting she had been wealthy.



Not only was it a match, showing that the woman must have been a Bischoff, but further archival research showed she was Anna Catharina Bischoff, who died in 1787, a direct maternal ancestor of Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2...urch-relative/

[Meat-Head]

#inbred

thought boris is part inglish and part emerican.

how can you get to that conclusion!

[super jumbe]

#inbred

thought boris is part inglish and part emerican.

how can you get to that conclusion!

Wrong not emerican.. Boris is really not just a foreigner but a European foreigner, no wonder Boris is so good at raising the temperature inside cabinet. He is the only one who can tell when it's getting hot under the collar.
They do say that mercury also makes you mad......

[GastonJ]

Is Boris the one on the left or the one on the right? They're so alike it's difficult to tell.