{"id":106610,"date":"2024-08-02T04:18:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/an-egyptian-mummys-silent-scream-might-have-been-fixed-at-death\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T04:18:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:18:32","slug":"an-egyptian-mummys-silent-scream-might-have-been-fixed-at-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/an-egyptian-mummys-silent-scream-might-have-been-fixed-at-death\/","title":{"rendered":"An Egyptian mummy\u2019s silent \u2018scream\u2019 might have been fixed at death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An ancient Egyptian mummy, dubbed the \u201cScreaming Woman\u201d for what appears to be an open-mouthed look of pain or fear, might have had that expression fixed in place by a rare muscle reaction when she died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudden muscular stiffening associated with violent deaths under extreme physical and emotional stress, known as cadaveric spasm, could explain this roughly 3,500-year-old mummy\u2019s silent scream<\/a>, researchers report August 2 in Frontiers in Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Screaming Woman\u2019s cause of death remains undetermined, so a cadaveric spasm cannot be confirmed as the reason for her alarming look. But new evidence of the care and cost involved in preparing this woman\u2019s mummified body indicates that embalmers did not simply neglect to close her mouth, say radiologist Sahar Saleem of Cairo University and anthropologist Samia El-Merghani, conservator of mummies at Egypt\u2019s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Cairo.<\/p>\n\n\n