Partially mummified remains from Egypt: Special burial conditions and a rich paleopathology.

Pálfi, György and Héléne, Cuvigny and Bereczki, Zsolt and Jean-Pierre, Brun (2020) Partially mummified remains from Egypt: Special burial conditions and a rich paleopathology. In: Aegyptus et Pannonia VI. Health and Life in Ancient Egypt. Mummies in Focus Proceedings of the Conference held 27-29th August 2019, Budapest. Magyar-Egyiptomi Baráti Társaság, Ókori Egyiptomi Bizottság, Budapest, pp. 55-62. ISBN 9786150103617

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Abstract

Our study deals with the partially mummified remains of an adult individual recovered in the Eastern Desert of Egypt in 2007, during the excavations of the Roman praesidium of Dios. The grave was discovered in the rubbish dump of the fortification. Several elements of the lower limb are mummified. However, the lack of mummification or more precisely the partial state of mummification of some parts enables the direct observation of the bones and the identification of several paleopathological conditions. Among others, dental pathologies and associated maxillary infection, severe osteoarthrosis and a very advanced stage, OPLL-associated DISH (Resnick et al., 1978) have been identified.

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