Lesson 77
A successful operation
The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes.(1)______________________________. 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. (2)____________________________. They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure of the god Duamutef. This god which has the head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy. The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. (3)___________________________. The mummy successfully survived the operation.
1. as there was strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy,doctor have been tried to find out wheather the woman died of a rare disease.
2. the doctors removed a section of the mummy and send it to a laboratory.
3. they feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cuy it open,but fortunately this has not happened.
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