The secret of the stark mummy and the latest findings of archaeologist Zahi Hawass, discovered in the Deir el-Bahari opening
The results of the computerized tomography indicate that the "mummy of unknown woman A" was suffering from high-grade atherosclerosis, which affected many arteries of the body.
Ancient Egyptian medicine defined "heart attack" and linked it to death. Evidence for this is the cold lines in ancient Egyptian medicine, known as the ebbris papyrus, whose address to the doctor more than 3,500 years ago says: “When examining a man suffering from stomach pain and suffering from pain in his arm and chest, this disease and hand (synonymous with a heart attack), You must tell him death is approaching him. "
A cross-sectional examination of the "mummy of the unknown woman" revealed that she suffers from hardening of the left and right coronary arteries, as well as the arteries of the neck, the abdominal and abdominal aorta, as well as the arteries of the lower limbs and legs.
The study assumes that coronary thrombosis of the "mummy of the unknown woman" caused heart muscle damage, which led to her sudden death of a heart attack.
Death caused the head to tilt to the right side and relax the jaw muscles, opening the mouth.
Evidence indicates that the deceased stayed long enough for several hours in this position,
Before the discovery of the body, the postmortem spasm led to stiffening of the muscles and joints and kept the mummy of the princess in this death position, so the mumps could not secure the mouth closing or put the body in a lying state as usual with the rest of the mummies.
And it seems that the embalmers did not deliberately neglect their work, but the circumstances of death gave rise to this unusual mummy situation.
And a CT scan showed that the mummified did not extract the brain of the mummy, as it still saw the brain inside the cranial cavity, but it tended to the right side to place the body on this side at the time of death and after embalming.
Previous studies by Dr. Zahi Hawass and Dr. Sahar Selim on royal mummies using CT scans helped to determine the features of mummification in different families.
This study indicates, by referring to the characteristics of the “screaming woman's mummy” method of mummification (such as brain extraction) that it may have been Meritamun, daughter of King Sahon Ra, from the end of the seventeenth dynasty 1558-1553 BC and not the daughter of King Ramses II (1279 -1213 BC) from the Nineteenth Dynasty.
Dr. Zahi Hawass completes the Egyptian mummy project with Dr. Sahar Selim and the rest of the scientific team, and conducts DNA tests on the "screaming woman" mummy, which may help confirm its identity.
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