Question: who was the first to discover this disease?
Keywords: discovery
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There has been evidence of ankylosing spondylitis found in the remains of mummys from Ancient Egypt, which are over 5000 years old! The first formal descriptions of the disease were made by Vladimir Bekhterev of Russia in 1893, then Adolph Strumpell of Germany in 1897 and finally Pierre Marie of France in 1898. AS has therefore also been known as Bekhetev’s disease, and Marie-Strumpell disease.
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