Mummies Had Heart Disease, Too

Courtesy WebMD Health  Tue, 11/17/2009 - 15:29

Hardening of the arteries, or atherosclerosis, has been detected in 3,500-year-old mummies, challenging the view that it is a disease of modern man.


 

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