Mummy autopsy result 'was wrong'
The first scientific autopsy on an ancient Egyptian mummy probably got the cause of death wrong, research suggests.
Dr Augustus Bozzi Granville caused a sensation when he described the autopsy to the Royal Society of London in 1825.
He concluded the mummified woman, Irtyersenu, died of ovarian cancer.
But a University College London study, published in the Royal Society journal Biological Sciences, strongly suggests she died of tuberculosis.
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Dr Augustus Bozzi Granville caused a sensation when he described the autopsy to the Royal Society of London in 1825.
He concluded the mummified woman, Irtyersenu, died of ovarian cancer.
But a University College London study, published in the Royal Society journal Biological Sciences, strongly suggests she died of tuberculosis.