He is said to have killed 80,000 people in his lifetime.
Vlad III was a 15th-century prince of Wallachia, a region that is now part ofInfamous for his cruelty and use of impalement as a method of execution, he is said to been responsible for the deaths of more than 80,000 people in his lifetime – but perhaps not animals.due to a medical condition, but have now discovered a more surprising fact.
The letters contained no traces of animal proteins, suggesting that Vlad may have been avoiding meat. The researchers used a technique called proteomics, a method of identifying and studying proteins that stuck to the letters over the centuries – including those he breathed onto the paper. ‘We characterised about 500 peptides, of which about 100 peptides were certainly of human origin,’ the authors wrote in their study,‘Peptides related to blood proteins or coming from proteins involved in the respiratory system were identified in all the documents characterised.’