Palaeopathology of human remains at ancient Mendes (Tell er-Rub’a), Egypt
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is paper discusses selected pathological conditions from the skeletal remains of 41 adult individuals (13 males, six possible males, eight possible females, seven females, and seven unknown sex) from the Old Kingdom, First Intermediate, and Ptolemaic or Greco-Roman periods from ancient Mendes. Macroscopic analysis for pathological conditions revealed evidence of trauma, degenerative joint disease, pronounced muscle markings, cranial porosity, and a possible case of hyperostosis frontalis interna. ese data provide a further source of information on the study of disease in ancient Egypt, particularly in the
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