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The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 BC has just had an operation. The mummy is that of Sheppeng Mutt, 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.
The operation which lasted for over four hours proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin. The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory. They also found something which the x-ray plates did not show. A small wax figure of the god Duomutef.
This god, which has the head of a cow, was normally placed inside the mummy. The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open. Fortunately, this has not happened.
The mummy successfully survived the operation.