[00:10.98]Did the doctors find out how the woman died? [00:16.55]The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 B.C. has just had an operation. [00:25.14]The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. [00:32.44]As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy, [00:38.20]doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease. [00:44.92]The only way to do this was to operate. [00:49.60]The operation, which lasted for over four hours, [00:54.40]proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin. [01:00.89]The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory. [01:06.75]They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show: a small wax figure of the god Duamutef. [01:17.10]This god which has the head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy. [01:23.78]The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. [01:28.90]They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open, [01:33.91]but fortunately this has not happened. [01:37.77]The mummy successfully survived the operation.