It was an international sensation when it was announced that a mummified woman was pregnant and had cancer. Now, after in -depth research, this version has been ruled out, but because it is still unknown what the mummy has in the stomach, the dispute of scientists continues.
The mummy dug out of the tomb in Thebes in Egypt and, which has been in Warsaw for 200 years, is not pregnant. And there is no nasopharynx cancer.
The international team of scientists in the prestigious “Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences” letter stated this. Specialists on research devoted three years. The co -author of the article is, among others, Dr. Łukasz Kownacki, a radiologist.
– As for the radiological picture, as a person who personally examined this mummy, I knew it from the very beginning. It is a kind of filling in the pelvis, which just so happened, this way these packages were in the shape of such, say, fetus, maybe a baby – says Dr. Łukasz Kownacki, a specialist in radiology and imaging diagnostics.
This is something in the stomach of a mummified woman, however, is not. What does the Tebanian mummy bears in the National Museum in itself? This latest article does not explain.
The mummy of a child from the Renaissance era
– We will explore the topic when it comes to what it is specifically. We know for sure that they are elements put in by balsamists. However, what is specifically, what material it consists of, we will still explain – says Kamila Braulińska, an archaeologist from the University of Warsaw, who, ten years ago, created together with then doctoral students, Marzena Ożarek -Szilke and Wojciech Ejsmond, an independent research initiative called Warsaw Mummy Project.
It was these two scientists that a few years ago stated that the Egyptian mummy was pregnant, which at the time caused not only a great stir in the world, but also a conflict in the Warsaw Mummy Project itself.
– I agree with Marzena Ożarek -Szilke, who claims that the mummy is pregnant – comments Dr. Wojciech Ejsmond, an archaeologist from the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Contradictory opinions of scientists Warsaw mummy project
Kamila Braulińska believes that pregnancy is not. Already three years ago a scientific article showed that there is no pregnancy. This latest publication of the international team confirms this.
– The opinion of independent experts at the back of the centers, such specialists, with such a great name, cannot leave any doubt – indicates Kamila Braulińska.
The article does not explain anything, nor is the examination of the radiologist – says Wojciech Ejsmond, who still thinks that the mummy is pregnant.
– The radiologist examines living patients, mummies are completely different, there are other tissue densities. A living patient, of course, will have more water in the body, the density of the skin and the guts of the mummy is different – notes Wojciech Ejsmond.
Three founders of Warsawy Mummy Project still use this name, but their scientific paths diverged.
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