The story of Count Dracula comes from the hands of Bram Stoker, a novelist. For many, the existence of character it is nothing more than a creation of the author, however recently an investigation led by scientists was initiated to find the origin of Dracula. Even a biomolecular analysis of found documents was done.
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Study of Count Dracula with the use of biomolecules
Gleb, Svetlana Zilberstein and Professor Pier Giorgio Righetti from the Polytechnic University of Milan, made use of a method that collects and analyzes biochemical traces of historical people. With that, they began the search for the genetic data of the person who influenced Bram Stoker to create Count Dracula.
In an interview the couple conducted with a British newspaper, they looked in saliva, sweat and fingerprints that could be over 500 years old for the famous Vlad Dracula.
The inspiration would have come from a man who was known as “Vlad the Impaler”, a prince of Wallachia, located in the south of present-day Romania, who ended up going down in history for his violence. He was known to expose the bodies of his victims on a stake.
This method has been used before
Gleb and Svetlana chose a manuscript to be evaluated. It was written by the people of Sibiu in 1475 when a prince was announcing his move to a city.
The analyzed method has already been used at another time, as in the original manuscript of “The Master and Margarita”, which was written by Mikhail Bulgákov. The method was also used in a work by George Orwell.
In the last document, traces of tuberculosis were found, which he contracted in Spain.
Well, if the method finds the traces that scientists are looking for so much, the story of Count Dracula – based on Prince “Vlad” – will end up much more real than we imagine.
