Selected publications

For a complete list of publications, please refer to our webpage at http://evolutionarymedicine.ch

Henneberg M., Rühli F., Gruber P., Woitek U.: Alanine transaminase individual variation is a better marker than socio-cultural factors for body mass increase in healthy males, in press.

Solomon LB., Hussenbocus S., Hoffman J., Howie DW., Rühli F.: Unusual outcomes of neck of femur fractures: from acetabulisation of the femur to ankylosis of the femoral head. Injury. In press. [Epub ahead of print, March 25]

Staub K., Rühli F., Woitek U., Pfister C.:The average height of 18- and 19-year-old conscripts (N=458, 322) in Switzerland from 1992 to 2009, and the secular height trend since 1878.Swiss Medical Weekly. 2011. 30:141:w13238.

Wanek J., Székely G., Rühli F. X-ray absorption-based Imaging and its limitation in Differentiation of Ancient Mummified Tissue. Skeletal Radiol. 2011. 40:595-601.

Papageorgopoulou C., Suter S.K., Rühli, F., Siegmund F.:Harris Lines Revisited: Patho-diagnostic Marker or Growth Spurt Indicator?American J Hum Biol. 2011:23, 381-391.

Wanek J, Szekely,G., Rühli F. "X-ray Absorption-based Imaging and its Limitations in Differentiation of Ancient Mummified Tissue", Skeletal Radiology, in press

Papageorgopoulou C., Rentsch K., Raghavan M., Hofmann MI., Colacicco G., Gallien V., Bianucci R., Rühli F., "Preservation of cell structures in a medieval infant brain: a paleohistological, paleogenetic, radiological and physico-chemical study." Neuroimage, in press

Kaufmann I., Rühli F. J, "Without informed consent: Ethics and ancient mummy research." J Med Ethics, in press

Staub K., Rühli F., Woitek U., Pfister C., "BMI-distribution / social-stratification in Swiss conscripts from 1875 to present.", Eur J Clin Nutr, in press

Oehrstroem L., Bitzer, A., Walther M., Rühli F. "Terahertz imaging of ancient mummies and bone." Am J Phys Anthropol, in press

Hawass Z., Shhafik M., Rühli F. et al. "Computed Tomographic Evaluation of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, ca. 1300 BC." Ann Serv Antiq Egypt, 81: 159-174, 2007 (published in 2009).

Rühli F.J., Blümich B., Henneberg M. "Charlemagne was very tall, but not robust." Econ Hum Biol, in press

Gruber P., Henneberg M., Böni T., Rühli F.J. "Variability of Human Foramen Magnum Size." Anat Rec, 292: 1713-1719, 2009.

Solomon LB, Rühli FJ., Lee YC, Henneberg M. "Secular trend in the opening of the sacral canal: an Australian study." Spine, 44:244-248, 2009.

Zweifel, L., Böni T., Rühli F.J. "Evidence-based paleopathology: Meta-analysis of PubMed-listed scientific studies on ancient Egyptian mummies." J Comp Hum Biol HOMO, 60: 405-427, 2009.

Papageorgopoulou C., Xirotiris N.I., Iten P.X., Baumgartner M.R., Schmid M., Rühli F. "Evidence for embalming in Roman Greece." J Archeol Sci, 36: 35-42, 2009.

Rühli F.J., Gill-Robinson H. (Eds.) Mummy studies: An Evidence Based Approach. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Rühli F., Henneberg M., Schär D.J., Imhof A., Schleiffenbaum B., Woitek U. "Determinants of inter-individual total cholesterol levels variations in an unbiased young male sample." Swiss Med Weekly, 130:286-91,2008.

Rühli F., Henneberg M., Woitek U. "Variability of height, weight and body mass index in an unbiased Swiss Armed Forces 2005 census."" Am J Phys Anthropol, 137: 457-468, 2008

Rühli F., von Waldburg H., Nielles-Vallespin S., Böni T., Speier P. "Clinical magnetic resonance imaging of ancient dry mummies without rehydration." JAMA, 298: 2618-2620, 2007.v

Pernter P., Gostner P., Egarter Vigl E., Rühli F. "Radiologic proof for the Iceman’s cause of death (ca. 5,300 BP)."" J Archeol Sci, 4: 1784-1786, 2007.

Rothschild B.M., Rühli F.J. "Etiology of reactive arthritis in Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes troglodytes and Pan troglodytes satyrus." Am J Primatol, 66: 219-231, 2005.

Rühli F.J., Henneberg M. "Clinical perspectives on secular trends of intervertebral foramen diameters in an industrialized European society." Eur Spine J, 13: 733-739, 2004.

- ca. 45 published peer-reviewed conference abstracts

- More than 100 invited academic / public lectures in US, Europe, Asia and Australia, e.g. at Princeton University or German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg

- Numerous media reports, e.g. in CNN, New York Times, The Guardian, BBC; DIE ZEIT; US National geographic Magazine; US, Iranian, German and Swiss TV

Some of the most recent press reports and clippings:

Latest Press clippings:
Nature.com: Archaeology meets Politics
SchweizerFamilie November "Nachrichten aus dem Totenreich" 2011

Medical Scans on a Mummy (BBC) 

- # 1 and# 8 of most often cited press reports of the University of Zurich in 2007 (unijournal, 1/2008):

“Mummy recipe hard to follow” SCIENCE, 326:25, 2009.

5 Questions for Frank Rühli“ DISCOVER, 7: 15, 2009.