Stanford postdoctoral scholar Anne Austin examines the skeletal remains of ancient Egyptians found in the burial sites of Deir el-Medina. [courtesy Anne Austin]
Posted on 11/23/2014 3:17:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv
In many bodies Austin saw evidence of stress from the hard climb – today it's a thousand stone steps – from Deir el-Medina to the Valley of the Kings and back again. As Austin found, incidence of arthritis in the knees and ankles of the men at Deir el-Medina was significantly higher than for working populations from other Egyptian cemeteries.
The bones also revealed clues that corroborate other scholars' findings that severely disabled Egyptians were well cared for.
"I found the remains of a man who died at the age of 19 or 20 and was born without a useful right leg, presumably because of polio or another neuromuscular disorder," Austin said.
"To work in the royal tombs, which was the entire purpose of the village, he would have had to climb," Austin said. But in examination of the young man's skeleton, she saw "no signs of other health issues, or of having lived a hard life. That suggests to me that they found a role for him in this community even though the predominant role, of working in the tombs, could not be met."
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Stanford postdoctoral scholar Anne Austin examines the skeletal remains of ancient Egyptians found in the burial sites of Deir el-Medina. [courtesy Anne Austin]
>>hat suggests to me that they found a role for him in this community even though the predominant role, of working in the tombs, could not be met.”<<
He must have been a stand-in.
When the white folks was in caves.
Or they found other duties for him and he’d hop to it.
He must have been a stand-in.
He just needed a leg up.
“he’d hop to it.”
What a lame joke!
he didnt have a leg to stand on.
when at a loss for words, I always use a lame joke as a crutch.
Life’s hard when you’re a foot shorter than everybody...
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So we have discovered the Ancient Egyptians were humane and Civilized-—Their own documents confirm this. They had a high civilization. They set this fellow to work doing other tasks—like grinding paints or making things they needs. Egypt had a skilled medical tradition started by Imhotep (and with all the germs coming down the Nile—they needed it)-—get this Average age in Ancient Egypt was 35, Average age in Rome was 25. The scouge of Leprosy that plagued the Ancient World—was unknown in Egypt.
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