Egypt
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 belongs to the Ptolemaic period, not 1500bc but 200bc.
Nevertheless the study is of interest and relevant to our own understanding of health. Perhaps the missing link in the study is our lack of recipes from ancient Egypt and in particular in this case the recipes for the meals of the royal court of the early Thutmoside dynasty.
Photo:The Theban Royal Mummy Project
- 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...
- 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...
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- Amenhotep's Toe
A dramatic event has taken place among the royal mummies when workers entered the royal mummy room of Cairo's museum and found that the big toe on Amenhotep II's right foot had fallen off. No it is not a bad case of leprosy and sure maybe...
- Mummies With A Heart
This article concerns 20 mummies from the Cairo museum from various periods in a study of hereditary heart disease. The mummies are from the upper classes of ancient Egyptian society and in at least 9 cases were found to have suffered from arteriosclerosis....
Egypt
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 belongs to the Ptolemaic period, not 1500bc but 200bc.
Nevertheless the study is of interest and relevant to our own understanding of health. Perhaps the missing link in the study is our lack of recipes from ancient Egypt and in particular in this case the recipes for the meals of the royal court of the early Thutmoside dynasty.
Photo:The Theban Royal Mummy Project
- 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...
- 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...
- Tuesday's Egyptian: The Lost Mummy Of King Kamose
Why...
- Amenhotep's Toe
A dramatic event has taken place among the royal mummies when workers entered the royal mummy room of Cairo's museum and found that the big toe on Amenhotep II's right foot had fallen off. No it is not a bad case of leprosy and sure maybe...
- Mummies With A Heart
This article concerns 20 mummies from the Cairo museum from various periods in a study of hereditary heart disease. The mummies are from the upper classes of ancient Egyptian society and in at least 9 cases were found to have suffered from arteriosclerosis....