Mummy Study
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Image List:
Image 1: After CT scanning, the mummy Hatiay is returned to its sarcophagus at Cairo's Museum of Egyptian Antiquities. American and Egyptian researchers found that almost half of the scanned mummies showed evidence of coronary atherosclerosis.
Image 2: The sarcophagus containing the mummy Isis is transported outside the museum to the CT scanner.
Image 3: The mummy Maiherpri was one of 52 involved in the latest study - a sampling of the elite in ancient Egypt.
Image 4: Its face remarkably intact, an unidentified mummy enters the CT scanner.
Image 5: The mummy Maiherpri undergoes CT scanning. Study results call into question the perception of atherosclerosis as a modern disease.
Image 6: CT imaging of the mummy Djeher - within its plastered casing - found evidence of heart artery and other vascular disease.
Image 7: An arrow points to heavy calcification in this mummy's left carotid artery.
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The mummy study returns
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