A team of paleopathologists and medical experts from Germany, the U.S. and Italy has found that anemia was common in ancient Egyptian children who had been mummified. In their study, reported in the International Journal of Osteoarcheology, the group subjected multiple mummified remains of children from ancient Egypt to computed tomography scans to study their skeletons.
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Source: Phys.org