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Ancient Egyptian mummy of a young girl is first with a bandaged wound

The ancient Egyptians were adept at bandaging dead bodies during the mummification process, but we have had no evidence of the way they dressed flesh wounds until now  

By Colin Barras

10 January 2022

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After virtually unwrapping the mummified body of a young girl who died 2000 years ago, archaeologists have found something unique: an ancient Egyptian bandaged wound.

The ancient Egyptians were no strangers to linen bandages, which they , about a thousand years before the first pharaohs rose to power. But until now, Egyptologists haven’t found bandages that were used to dress the wounds of living ancient Egyptians.

As part of a study investigating skin infections in ancient Egyptian children,

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