77 A Successful Operation

名称：77 A Successful Operation
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新概念英语第二册（英音）
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[00:14.85]Did the doctors find out how the woman died?
[00:21.36]The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation.
[00:30.21]The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes.
[00:39.29]As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy,
[00:44.62]doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease.
[00:50.65]The only way to do this was to operate.
[00:54.05]The operation, which lasted for over four hours,
[00:57.56]proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin.
[01:04.26]The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory.
[01:09.97]They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure of the god Duamutef.
[01:20.83]This god which has the head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy.
[01:27.64]The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died.
[01:31.64]They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open,
[01:36.32]but fortunately this has not happened.
[01:39.74]The mummy successfully survived the operation.