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2009-09-30 13:05:00
The first-ever scientific autopsy of an Egyptian mummy concluded that the woman had died from complications with ovarian cancer, but a new study has shown that conclusion may have been wrong.Augustus Bozzi Granville, a British physician and obstetrician, completed the first-ever mummy autopsy in 1825. He noted that the cause of death was ovarian cancer."I determined, perfect and beautiful as it was, to make it the object of further research by subjecting it to the anatomical knife, and...
