Egypt
National Geographic
Slideshow.
- 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...
- 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...
- Talking Mummies
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Egypt
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 by a joint U.S.-Egyptian team. The tests revealed that almost half of the dead have clogged arteries associated with a condition called atherosclerosis, which can lead to heart attack or stroke.
One of the mummies, a princess who died about 3,500 years ago, is now the oldest known case of the arterial disease, the researchers say.
"If the princess was in a time machine and I was to see her now, I would tell her to lay off the fat, take plenty of exercise, then schedule her for heart surgery," said study co-leader Gregory Thomas, a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Irvine. "She would require a double bypass."
- 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...
- 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...
- Talking Mummies
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