This is an interesting study that claims to have found heart disease in the 3500-year-old royal mummy of the princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon. I hesitated running this article because the pictures are not of the princess and the mummy shown probably belongs to the Ptolemaic period, not 1500 BC, but 200bc.
Nevertheless, the study is of interest and relevant to our own understanding of health. Perhaps the missing link in the study is our lack of recipes from ancient Egypt, and in particular, in this case, the recipes for the meals of the royal court of the early Thutmoside dynasty.
Photo: The Theban Royal Mummy Project
No comments:
Post a Comment