Egyptolocic Report
Objective of the performed search
Purpose of the interdisciplinary project has been that to organize the
enormous mass of information of historical character systematically,
mummiologic and biological on the populations of the Valley of the Nile
I cross more than three millennia, to constitute a bank given statistic
and bibliographical. The wealth of documentation of skeletal human rests
and mummified from ancient Egypt has been, thanks to the project,
exploited according to the technical more modern paleopatologiches,
understood the reconstruction of the ancient alimentary models to the
purpose to get a global picture of the style of life and the illnesses
of ancient Egypt.
Description of the performed Search and the gotten results
The harvest of the data that constitutes the basic Date report her that
has been called "Anubis" allows to access a rich mass and adjourned of
information of three types, historic - archaeological - egyptologic,
paleopatologic and furnished biomolecular three give operational unity,
that have worked in coordinated way and concomitance. The collaboration
and the availability from the museums and of the superintendences has
been general, with some exceptions however.
" Anubis " can be consulted on line to the address
http://www.Anubis.unipi.it
and
http://www.egittologia.unipi.it
What makes the remarkable and effective job scientifically is also the
fact what the DB will be able subsequently to be ampliable with ulterior
serious data. Several articles and a volume, accompanied by a
show-conference on the results, they are in program.
The historical and sociological knowledges on ancient Egypt receive
light from how much can be gotten by the municipal researches on the
examined mummies; it is also of sure historical and social interest the
fact what the middle age of death of the adults has resulted of 37 years
for the males and of 31,5 years for the female, it would seem therefore
that the adult Egyptians enjoyed of a longer middle life in comparison
to other ancient populations. Also the strong incidence of female
corpses for birth is an important datum, while, to stay in the field of
the illnesses that they struck the female part of the population, the
osteoporosi, tied up to the climaterio, has been observed on individuals
of sex female. If the feeding based due dental usury (system of
production of the flour of cereals with millstones of stone) has
resulted diffused also between their children, the total edentulia was
characteristic of individuals over fifty of masculine sex.
The relationship of the operational unity of paleopatologia has
furnished these and others important conclusions that also bring new and
original elements to I study some patocenosi in ancient Egypt,
particularly it seems that the picked data confirm the fact what the
ancient Egyptian population enjoyed of a good and balanced feeding.
The conclusions which has reached I study on the genetic material from
human rests mummified of ancient Egypt, they are very interesting really
because negative in how much they exclude, or at least they declare
extremely unlikely, that the mummies can furnish material genetic
original.
Problems found during the search
The problems have been those that derive from the dispersion of the
museums and collections, and from the fact what in certain cases has not
been possible to extract from the showcases the finds; besides the
greatest part of the museums have not accepted of to let go out of the
museums was the mummies to submit her to examinations of TAC.
