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...
- Mummy Royalty Show Signs Of Clogged Arteries
Science (Heather Pringle) In the ancient tomb paintings of the Nile Valley, Egypt's nobility often appears lithe, beautiful, and, above all, healthy. But researchers have long doubted that life at the top of the social pyramid in ancient Egypt was...
- 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 Mummies And Their Age-old Tales
JoonAng Daily With photographs. In ancient Egypt, people believed in the afterlife and thought that eternal life was possible when the body, soul and life force were wholly merged. They also believed that the soul and the body separate at the time of...
- Exhibition: Egypt Endures At ‘tombs Of Eternity: The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt’
Epoch Times (Susan Hallett) This exhibition has been quite well covered in the Canadian media, and I've posted about it before, but I've added this link because it has better detail than previous articles and the photographs are very good, including...
Egypt
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 for the afterlife. Today you can admire the texts and religious imagery decorating her mummified body.
Such mummies are providing modern science with a view into their ancient world. Modern imaging techniques allowed experts to suggest famed Tutankhamun died of malaria (about 1,324 BC). And medical scans show diseases such as atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) were common among ancient Egyptians; even cancer has been detected.
The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh is running a special exhibition, Fascinating Mummies, until May 27th, which focuses on what scientists today can tell us about ancient 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...
- Mummy Royalty Show Signs Of Clogged Arteries
Science (Heather Pringle) In the ancient tomb paintings of the Nile Valley, Egypt's nobility often appears lithe, beautiful, and, above all, healthy. But researchers have long doubted that life at the top of the social pyramid in ancient Egypt was...
- 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 Mummies And Their Age-old Tales
JoonAng Daily With photographs. In ancient Egypt, people believed in the afterlife and thought that eternal life was possible when the body, soul and life force were wholly merged. They also believed that the soul and the body separate at the time of...
- Exhibition: Egypt Endures At ‘tombs Of Eternity: The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt’
Epoch Times (Susan Hallett) This exhibition has been quite well covered in the Canadian media, and I've posted about it before, but I've added this link because it has better detail than previous articles and the photographs are very good, including...