Autopsy reveals ancient Egyptian mummy died of TB
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A Egyptian worker sits next to a sarcophagus which contains a mummy in ...Source: AFP
An autopsy that started in 1825 has finally reached a conclusion, determining that the cause of the death of an ancient Egyptian mummy was tuberculosis. The mummy, of a woman named �Irtyersenu�, who died in Thebes around 600 BC, aged about 50, was discovered by Dr Augustus Granville in 1825.
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- News Source: Uinta County News | 2 months agoDr Augustus Bozzi Granville caused a sensation when he described the autopsy to the Royal Society of London in 1825. He concluded the mummified woman, Irtyersenu, died of ovarian cancer. But a University College London study, published in the Royal...
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