Medical examination for mummies

Although these people died more than 2,000 years ago, scientists can still diagnose them.

The mummies are taken into the scanner.

52 mummies in the Egyptian museum in Cairo were conducted by a group of doctors and scientists from the US and Egypt to diagnose diseases. They put the mummies into the scanner. Tests show that half of all people who die from arterial occlusion, also called atherosclerosis, are a major cause of heart attacks and strokes.

Among those mummies, there was a princess who died about 3,500 years ago, also because of the disease mentioned above.

The photo above is the head of a mummy named Djeher, taken to a CT scan. Djeher lived in the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt (year 304 to 30 BC). According to the examination results, this guy also died of heart disease.

Workers are slowly bringing the mummy named Hatiay (living between 1550 and 1295 BC) back to the coffin after being scanned.

The ancient Egyptian researcher, Ibrahem Badr, said that most of the embalmed people were from the elite or royal family. Many of them died from vascular-related diseases, just like the princess had just been mentioned.

At that time, the upper class lived in honor and wealth, and there were servants and servants everywhere, who never had to touch their hands and feet to do anything, even bathing and having servants help. That makes them prone to obesity.

Medicine at that time had not developed to the point of understanding the harmful effects of this disease. That is why most of the mummies tested died of illness.

A lot of things about the life of the ancient elite have been brought to light thanks to tests like this.

Until now, scientists still have to recognize the embalming technology of the ancient Egyptians perfectly.