Lesson 77
A successful operation
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1Did the doctors find out how the woman died?
2The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation.
3The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes.
4As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy,
5doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease.
6The only way to do this was to operate.
7The operation, which lasted for over four hours,
8proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin.
9The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory.
10They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show:
11a small wax figure of the god Duamutef.
12This god which has the head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy.
13The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died.
14They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open,
15but fortunately this has not happened.
16The mummy successfully survived the operation.
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