Around 3,500 years ago, Queen Ahmose-Amon-Meryet enjoy a very luxurious life in the area that is now the Luxor, a city in southern region of Egypt. But apparently, he did not live happy in the end of his life ..The reason, of research, it is known that two of the three main coronary artery calcification body experience, which is a sign of atherosclerosis or fatty buildup in artery walls. If he was alive today, bypass surgery is necessary.
The team of scientists discovered this after a CT scan of the entire body of the queen who had been mummified. These findings make the Queen Ahmose-Meryet-Amon became the oldest known patient's arteries and heart disease.
In his report, A. H. Allam and colleagues now present his findings at an international conference of Non-Invasice Cardiovascular Imaging, said, atherosclerosis proved to be a common thing in ancient humans after they do research on ancient Egyptian mummies.
As quoted from the journal Scientific American, May 23, 2011, the Egyptian food at a time when it is fresh fruits and vegetables, wheat and barley, a little meat, bread, and beer. Egyptian society is also very active doing activities. The pattern of life is a sign of a healthy lifestyle. Then why the Queen is dead at age 40 years?
According to the researchers concluded, the Queen has probably had a genetic tendency to experience heart disease. Another possibility, he is eating foods that are not commonly eaten by people at that time.
Another possibility was that he was inflamed due to a common disease caused by parasites or cause of cardiovascular pathology when it is not known.
To be sure, from a scan of the mummy, it is known that heart disease, previously known to be the result of lifestyle medern, it has been present since at least 3,500 years ago.
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