图片新闻【608】埃及发现4000年前医生木乃伊

Tourists ride camels in front of Giza pyramids in this April 23, 2006 file photo. Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the funerary remains of a doctor who lived more than 4,000 years ago, including his mummy, sarcophagus and bronze surgical instruments in his tomb near Egypt's first pyramid. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

词汇：

archaeologist n.考古学家

funerary adj.葬礼的, 埋葬的

remains n.残余, 遗迹, 遗体

mummy n.[小儿语] 妈咪, [口头语] 妈妈, 木乃伊, 干瘪的人

sarcophagus n.石棺

surgical adj.外科的, 外科医生的, 手术上的

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Egypt finds 4,000-year-old doctor's mummy

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the funerary remains of a doctor who lived more than 4,000 years ago, including his mummy, sarcophagus and bronze surgical instruments.

The upper part of the tomb was discovered in 2000 at Saqqara, 20 km (12 miles) south of Cairo, and the sarcophagus came to light in the burial pit during cleaning work, state news agency MENA said on Tuesday, quoting Egyptian government antiquities chief Zahi Hawass.

The doctor, whose name was Qar, lived under the 6th dynasty and built his tomb near Egypt's first pyramid. The 6th dynasty ruled from about 2350 to 2180 BC.

Hawass said the lid of the wooden sarcophagus had excellent and well-preserved decoration and the mummy itself was in ideal condition. "The linen wrappings and the funerary drawings on the mummy are still as they were," he said.

"The mask which covers the face of the mummy is in an amazing state of preservation in spite of slight damage in the area of the mouth."

The tomb also had earthenware containers bearing the doctor's name, a round limestone offering table and 22 bronze statues of gods.