Egypt
BBC News (Jane Dreaper)
With photos.
EurekAlert
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies
Irish Times (Anthony King) The Lady Tentdinebu reclines in a corner room of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Her brilliantly coloured encasement tells us she once lived in ancient Egypt. When she died around 800 BC in Thebes, her body was preserved...
- Photos Of Scans Looking For Mummy Disease
National Geographic Slideshow. An unidentified Egyptian mummy dated back to between 688 and 332 B.C. slides into a CT scanner as part of a recent study of ancient disease. The mummy was among 52 from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo subjected to medical scanning...
- In The Lab: Mummies From The Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) An intelligent summary of some of the results of the work being done at the Cairo Museum where researchers have been using CT scans to find out more about the health of ancient Egyptians. If you have been given the unwelcome...
- In The Lab: Results From Mummy Scans From Cairo Museum
Los Angeles Times (Thomas H. Maugh II) With photos. CT scans of Egyptian mummies, some as much as 3,500 years old, shows evidence of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, which is normally thought of as a disease caused by modern lifestyles, researchers...
- The Heart Of Princess Ahmose-meryet-amon
This is an interesting study which claims to have found heart disease in the 3500 year old royal mummy of the princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon. I hesitated running this article because the pictures are not of the princess and the mummy shown probably...
Egypt
Egyptian mummy 'first to have diseased heart'
BBC News (Jane Dreaper)
With photos.
An Egyptian princess who lived 3,500 years ago is thought to be the first known person to have developed heart disease, say researchers.
Doctors believe the princess would have needed a heart bypass if she were living now.
Scans showed she had extensive blockages in arteries leading to her heart, brain, stomach and legs.
The researchers say her case shows heart disease pre-dates a modern lifestyle.
Cardiac researchers from the US teamed up with colleagues at Al Azhar University in Cairo to analyse the remains of 52 mummies, including those of the princess.
They performed full-body scans on mummies at the National Museum of Antiquities in Cairo.
They had found evidence of hardening of the arteries in almost half the mummies scanned, researchers told a medical conference in Amsterdam.
EurekAlert
The coronary arteries of Princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon - as visualised by whole body computerised tomography (CT) scanning - will feature in two presentations at the International Conference of Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging (ICNC) this week in Amsterdam (15-18 May). ICNC is now one of the world's major scientific event in nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT imaging.
The Egyptian princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon, who lived in Thebes (Luxor) between 1580 and 1550 BC and who is now known to be first person in human history with diagnosed coronary artery disease, lived on a diet rich in vegetables, fruit and a limited amount of meat from domesticated (but not fattened) animals. Wheat and barley were grown along the banks of the Nile, making bread and beer the dietary staples of this period of ancient Egypt. Tobacco and trans-fats were unknown, and lifestyle was likely to have been active.
The coronary arteries of Princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon - as visualised by whole body computerised tomography (CT) scanning - will feature in two presentations at the International Conference of Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging (ICNC) currently taking place in Amsterdam (15-18 May). ICNC is now one of the world's major scientific event in nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT imaging.
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies
Irish Times (Anthony King) The Lady Tentdinebu reclines in a corner room of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Her brilliantly coloured encasement tells us she once lived in ancient Egypt. When she died around 800 BC in Thebes, her body was preserved...
- Photos Of Scans Looking For Mummy Disease
National Geographic Slideshow. An unidentified Egyptian mummy dated back to between 688 and 332 B.C. slides into a CT scanner as part of a recent study of ancient disease. The mummy was among 52 from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo subjected to medical scanning...
- In The Lab: Mummies From The Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) An intelligent summary of some of the results of the work being done at the Cairo Museum where researchers have been using CT scans to find out more about the health of ancient Egyptians. If you have been given the unwelcome...
- In The Lab: Results From Mummy Scans From Cairo Museum
Los Angeles Times (Thomas H. Maugh II) With photos. CT scans of Egyptian mummies, some as much as 3,500 years old, shows evidence of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, which is normally thought of as a disease caused by modern lifestyles, researchers...
- The Heart Of Princess Ahmose-meryet-amon
This is an interesting study which claims to have found heart disease in the 3500 year old royal mummy of the princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon. I hesitated running this article because the pictures are not of the princess and the mummy shown probably...