Imaging tests on Egyptian mummies showed that hart disease was as common 3500 years ago as it is today. Life expectancy was significantly shorter—averaging less than 50 years, leading anthropologists to think ancient Egypt only had HMO’s.
Still, this ancient society may have been healthier overall than we are today. Maybe that’s why you never see a fat mummy.
Learning about heart disease from mummies may not provide a cure, but it might wrap some bandages around it.
The researchers had hoped to learn more, but Brendan Fraser busted in and blasted all the mummies with a shotgun.
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