Egypt
Stamford Advocate
- Why Was An Ancient Egyptian Boy Dressed As A Girl?
Daily Mail With photos A 1,700-year-old Egyptian mummy has been revealed as a boy dressed in girl's clothing thanks to these incredible hospital scans. The child, who lived around 350AD, underwent scans as experts hoped to determine its sex and discover...
- Mummies Examined For Rates Of Cancer
The Telegraph, UK (Richard Alleyne) Researchers looking at almost a thousand mummies from ancient Egypt and South America found only a handful suffered from cancer when now it accounts for nearly one in three deaths. The findings suggest that it is modern...
- In The Lab: Bad Teeth
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) Worn teeth, periodontal diseases, abscesses and cavities tormented the ancient Egyptians, according to the first systematic review of all studies performed on Egyptian mummies in the past 30 years. After examining research...
- Weekly Websites - Dentists
I have a complete terror of dentists. Today I am feeling particularly sorry for myself because I have to have a molar rebuilt. As I haven't been to a dentist for nearly six years, I do consider myself to be lucky not to need more treatment. As my...
- Dental Disease Identified In 2000 Year Old Mummy
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2007/04/02/health2/health04.txt"USC orthodontist James Mah may have the oldest client ever - a 2,000-year-old Egyptian girl. His patient was the mummy of a 4- or 5-year-old Egyptian girl. Wrapped and embalmed two...
Egypt
Barnum Museum mummy suffered from dental disease
Stamford Advocate
An expert in forensic dentistry at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine in Farmington said that Pa-Ib, the 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy at the Barnum Museum, suffered greatly from dental disease in the last years of her life.
But the expert, Dr. Alan G. Lurie, DDS, said that whether that was the actual cause of her death would be impossible to tell because of damage to the skull that was caused during the mummification process.
But he said that she suffered from "very dangerous lesions" at the roots of the lower canines that can lead to infections of the sinuses, and ultimately, abscesses of the brain.
- Why Was An Ancient Egyptian Boy Dressed As A Girl?
Daily Mail With photos A 1,700-year-old Egyptian mummy has been revealed as a boy dressed in girl's clothing thanks to these incredible hospital scans. The child, who lived around 350AD, underwent scans as experts hoped to determine its sex and discover...
- Mummies Examined For Rates Of Cancer
The Telegraph, UK (Richard Alleyne) Researchers looking at almost a thousand mummies from ancient Egypt and South America found only a handful suffered from cancer when now it accounts for nearly one in three deaths. The findings suggest that it is modern...
- In The Lab: Bad Teeth
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) Worn teeth, periodontal diseases, abscesses and cavities tormented the ancient Egyptians, according to the first systematic review of all studies performed on Egyptian mummies in the past 30 years. After examining research...
- Weekly Websites - Dentists
I have a complete terror of dentists. Today I am feeling particularly sorry for myself because I have to have a molar rebuilt. As I haven't been to a dentist for nearly six years, I do consider myself to be lucky not to need more treatment. As my...
- Dental Disease Identified In 2000 Year Old Mummy
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2007/04/02/health2/health04.txt"USC orthodontist James Mah may have the oldest client ever - a 2,000-year-old Egyptian girl. His patient was the mummy of a 4- or 5-year-old Egyptian girl. Wrapped and embalmed two...