77 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.