Pregnant Mummy Probably Died Of Cancer Archaeologists
Polish archaeologists at the Warsaw Mummy Project found a lesion, about 7 millimeters in diameter, around the mummy’s eye socket, likely left by a tumor, along with several cavities in the skull. “We thought it was damage from the children doing the mummification process, but when I looked closer I saw that there are not many bones behind the socket (receptacle) and in the nasal cavity,” archaeologist and co-director in Warsaw The Mummy Project (WMP), Marzena Ozarek-Szilke told CTVNews....