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--- Lesson 77 A successful operation |
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--- First listen and then answer the question. |
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--- Did the doctors find out how the woman died? |
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The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation. |
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The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. |
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As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy, |
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doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease. |
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The only way to do this was to operate. |
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The operation, which lasted for over four hours, proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin. |
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The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory. |
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They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure of the god Duamutef. |
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This god which has the head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy. |
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The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. |
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They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open, but fortunately this has not happened. |
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The mummy successfully survived the operation. |
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