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To: nickcarraway

From a different article, “’Based on Shep-en-Isis’ anatomical age and the style of her inner coffin, she must have been born by around 650 BC and died between 620 and 610 BC,’ Dr Michael Habicht from Flinders University told Aventuras na História.”

Even as a noble woman she would have been old for that period. “Old age was a situation that included only a very small portion of the Egyptian population. The study of the anthropological evidence from several cemeteries as well as the census declarations from Roman Egypt defined the average life expectancy for males at 22.5-25 years and for females at 35-37 years. Under these considerations, an individual in his mid-thirties was considered an old person in ancient Egypt.” https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/04/Getting-Old-In-Ancient+Egypt


10 posted on 02/07/2022 1:27:14 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: outofsalt

Although Ramses lived to be over 70 ... but that was a thousand years before her.


13 posted on 02/07/2022 2:11:52 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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