The American Museum of Natural History Release: Mummy X-Rays Give Medical Histories of Egyptian Pharaohs

Authors

Document Type

Article

Abstract

By X-raying mummies, a professor of dentistry at the University of Michigan and an egyptologist from the Metropolitan Museum of Art have discovered that the royal rulers of ancient Egypt were prone to many of the same diseases and afflictions that plague modern man.

Publication Date

October 1972

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers' Journal

Volume

9

Issue

4

First Page

9

Last Page

9

Copyright

© Copyright 1972 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

(1972) "The American Museum of Natural History Release: Mummy X-Rays Give Medical Histories of Egyptian Pharaohs," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 9: No. 4, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol9/iss4/5