Israel to display ancient mummy with modern-day afflictions
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Israel's national museum says it will put on display later this week a 2,200-year-old Egyptian mummy that shows signs of some modern-day afflictions.
The museum said on Tuesday that new research conducted on the mummy — Israel's only such relic — shows signs of osteoporosis and tooth decay, illnesses that typically preoccupy today's humans.
CT scans detected the diseases and determined the mummy was a man between 30 and 40 years old at the time of his death. The discovery builds on previous international research on mummies that shows such diseases occurred in ancient times.
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The mummy is on loan to Jerusalem's Israel Museum from a Jesuit institution, which received it in the late 1920s. This will be the first time it's put on display in a museum setting.