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Sahar Saleem Quotes

Egypt

Sahar Saleem is a professor of radiology at Cairo University where she specialises in paleoradiology, the use of radiology to study mummies. She discovered the knife wound in the throat of Ramesses III, which was most likely the cause of his death.

Egypt
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“Whether I am scanning mummies or doing fetal MRIs, I’m using modern technology and science to do a good deed for patients and for heritage.”

“I always mention this story when people say, ‘why are you a radiologist and why did you become a doctor of mummies?’ And I always start my answer with, ‘when I was at Western.

Having a look from my computer at the face of King Amenhotep I, as the first person in 3,000 years to see his face, was really a moment of joy. I considered it a blessing.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sahar Saleem (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.