Egypt: The discovery of the oldest case of heart failure in a 3,500-year-old mummy

ArabiaWeather.com- Researchers have discovered the oldest case of chronic heart failure ever in a 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummy, it was announced at the International Conference on Egyptology in Florence, Italy.

The Italian Egyptologist, Ernesto Schiaparelli, had discovered the mummy of Neberi, or the head of the horse barns, in 1904 in the Valley of the Queens, Luxor Governorate, while its remains are still preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Turin.

Neberi's head and internal organs were kept in capone pots like those used by the ancient Egyptians to preserve the mummies of the dead, and then the researchers analyzed them to find out the cause of death.

The team of researchers announced that "Neberi" died at the age of between 45 and 60 years, and by scanning the skull and reconstructing it with 3D technology, they found that he was suffering from several diseases with huge abscesses, according to the "Discovery" website in a report.

The scan on the head showed that there was an attempt to remove the brain, but a large amount of tissue was left. They also found calcification (deposition of insoluble calcium salts) in the right internal carotid artery, which indicates the presence of arteriosclerosis, but they remarkably found pulmonary edema and cells that reflect heart failure

Niberi lived in the eighteenth Pharaonic dynasty, during the reign of Thutmose III, between 1479 and 1424 BC.

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