A Successful Operation
A Successful Operation
The
mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation. The
mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. As
there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy, doctors have
been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease. The only way
to do this was to operate. The operation, which lasted for over four hours,
proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin.
The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it into a laboratory. They
also found something which the X-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure of
the god Duamutef. This god which has the head of a cow was normally placed
inside a mummy. The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. They
feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open, but
fortunately, this has not happened. The mummy successfully survived the
operation.
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