irrelevant how many deadly diseases they had, dead is dead. Though it's interesting to note that Rome probably had much better sanitation than much of the world in the late 19th, early 20th century.
And from that you make a lot of assumptions. Clue: You can't determine the age of something you don't know anything about. We can determine the age of an animal in nature because we know their habits and how it affects their teeth. Even those estimates are sometimes completely wrong in the individual instance.
I couldn't, but a forensic anthropologist or osteoarchaeologist can.
They were indirectly to blame for harboring the ticks that spreads the disease.
Fleas you idiot, not ticks.