SOMETIME around 740 BC, Uzziah, King of Judah, bought himself leprosy with the currency of haughtiness. He wanted to transmute into a priest and burn incense. Here’s how 2 Chronicles 26 records ...

Experts hope to uncover a 500-year-old hospital called a leprosarium; which people with leprosy would have admitted themselves into. Ms Sam Tipper, a senior lecturer from Anglia Ruskin university ...