🎙️ Secrets of Survival (S.O.S.) Episode Title: Whispers in the Bone: The Ancient History of Tuberculosis - Part 1 Narrated by: Dr. Susan Rashid Podcast Episode Summary: In this immersive and sweeping episode of Secrets of Survival, Dr. Susan Rashid guides listeners through the haunting and enduring legacy of one of humanity’s oldest afflictions: tuberculosis. Long before microscopes and antibiotics, TB was a sacred mystery—a wasting disease that touched kings and monks, mummies and mystics, shaping the medical, spiritual, and cultural consciousness of civilizations across time. Whispers in the Bone travels across continents and centuries - unearthing TB from the hieroglyphic echoes and spectral spinal remains of ancient Egypt, tracing its presence through the Ayurvedic doctrines of India, and listening for its silence in Buddhist monastic codes. With the precision of a physician and the soul of a storyteller, Dr. Rashid weaves together forensic anthropology, historical medicine, spiritual cosmologies, and the haunting poetics of breath. What emerges is a portrait of tuberculosis not merely as a microbial invader, but as a mirror of human fragility—a shadow that has followed us through time, illuminating our deepest fears, our faith, and our longing to heal. Join us as we exhume the sacred and scientific archives of ancient civilizations: Egypt, India, Europe, Middle East, the Americas, and Asia—discovering how breath, body, and belief have always been entwined in the ancient art of survival.