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Vlad Dracula was a 15th Century ruler of Wallachia in Romania, an infamously brutal military leader who was said to impale his enemies.

The peptides also allowed Pittalá's team to explore the wider context of Dracula's life as the environmental conditions of latter-year 15th century Wallachia.

His sweating fist cantering across the surface of Romanian rag paper in swooping lines of 15th Century Latin as steadily as his armies swept through the Carpathian mountains, we know for certain that Vlad Drăculea — merciless defender of Wallachia, harbinger of an estimated 80,000 deaths — wept and bled into the very ink of his hand-written letters.

We know for certain that Vlad Drăculea — merciless defender of Wallachia, harbinger of an estimated 80,000 deaths — wept and bled into the very ink of his hand-written letters.

He reportedly visited the Whitby Museum to explore the history of these vessels, as well as a local library, where he came upon William Wilkinson’s book The Accounts of Principalities of Wallachia and Moldova.