学二姐，每日一篇新概念 II册第77课 ，边学边实践-11月5日

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. 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 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. They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open, but fortunately this has not happened. The mummy successfully survived the operation.
77. Finding strange markers on the X-ray plates taken of a mummy, doctors decided to do an operation on the mummy. This mummy is an Egyptian woman who was a singer and died in 800 B.C. The operation lasted for 4 hours due to the hard resin that covered the skin. A section of mummy had been sent to the lab to do further test. They also found a small wax figure of the God Duamutef. The doctors still didn’t know the cause of the woman death, but they are glad the mummy survived the operation as they were afraid the mummy would fall to pieces.

Thank you for listening, any comments are welcomed! It's too late, i just let is be.

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• Impressive! Good job, Swan. -北京二号- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/06/2009 postreply 20:15:07

• 谢二姐鼓励！ -blueswan- ♀ (127 bytes) () 11/06/2009 postreply 23:26:08